CHINTE (珍手) - Shotokan kata. There are theories that it got its name ”Rare Hands” or ”Unusual Hands” due to truly unique techniques included in it, or after some Chinese general. Still, its origin is undoubtedly Chinese, because kata abounds in circular motions and frequent stance level changes. It was most often performed in Shorin-Ryu school. This kata is thought to be related to the Gankaku kata. The original name for Gankaku was Chinto. There is something that makes Chinte unique when compared to other Shotokan katas, and those are many unusual and rarely executed techniques, such as Nihon haito uchi-uke, Jodan nihon-nukite, then Otoshi nakayubi ippon-ken, and Morote hasami-zuki which precedes the ending of the kata. Those techniques are also most likely the reason why it won that kind of a name. Chinte has a specific ending that does not exist in any other kata. It is performed with three backward hops with jointed legs, with every following hop being half-length shorter than the previous one. There is no similar kata in any other style. It is practised only in Shotokan and styles deriving from Shotokan, such as Shotokai. Chinte was, regardless, a favourite kata of sensei Taiji Kase. Funakoshi had not described Chinte in his book Karate-do Kyohan. It is assumed that it was included in Shotokan-Ryu after 1922.
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