Nage-No-Kata Practice Log

Mat Manual companion guide to "The Kata You Cannot Forget: Nage-No-Kata for Grading." Print it. The article explains the bottleneck. This book is the preparation: the full fifteen-throw map, a technique card for every throw with both-sides steps and the errors examiners deduct for, the formal frame checklist, uke's duties per set, the examiner's error checklist with a mock-grading score sheet, a six-week set-by-set build plan, and a practice log that tracks the right side, the left side, and your recovery when a technique goes missing in rehearsal.

Tori: ______________________________ Uke: ______________________________ Club: ______________________________ Grading date: ______________ Federation syllabus checked (date): ______________

BEFORE ANYTHING: THE AGREEMENTS ☐ The syllabus document is read, this season, by both partners: which sets, which side order, and what a forgotten technique costs in your federation. No clause in this book outranks your federation's text. ☐ Kata practice is scheduled like grading preparation, not fitted into randori's leftovers. Sessions are in the diary with both names on them. ☐ Throws in kata practice are finished throws, and falls are real falls. Uke takes full ukemi in every full run; tori controls every landing, every rep, at every stage of tiredness. ☐ Criticism inside the partnership is specific and written down. "That was off" is not coaching. The error checklist in Part 20 is the vocabulary both partners agree to use. ☐ A backup uke arrangement is discussed with the coach by week four. Partnerships are people, and people have ankles.

Part 1: The Full Map — Fifteen Throws, Five Sets

Performance order. The throws run in this order, each on the right side and then the left, with the pair repositioning between throws on the kata's line. The map is printed once here and expected to be memorised from it: a candidate still counting throws in week five is behind the plan in Part 22, and the plan says so without cruelty.

How to read the five sets as a syllabus. Each set asks a different question of tori's body. Te-waza: can your hands finish a throw your feet barely enter? Koshi-waza: can your hips become the fulcrum under a live weight, three different ways? Ashi-waza: can your leg arrive on a half second, in time with a travel step? Ma-sutemi: can you fall under a person and have the fall be the throw? Yoko-sutemi: can you fall beside the line and take them across it? Candidates who learn the sets as five questions stop forgetting the kata, because a question is remembered differently from a list, and the answer to each, rehearsed thirty times a side, is what Parts 4 to 18 of this book are for.