Godan and Keri Katas

Later on his road put him in the way of another great Master, Seitoku Higa, who - in kihon's training - taught a series of crisscross displacements, while simultaneously different arm techniques were executed.
Before this walk to the Dojo (going forward and turn back), and as introduction to the same one, Master Setoku Higa taught - among others - two exercises that, although it was not considered Katas, they were sequences of techniques and positions. These old forms are still trained in Okinawa.

When he cames to Occident, Master Akamine saw that the Western people didn't adapt very well to the education systems practiced by the Oriental people, and that there were a jump - and a very big hole - between the KIHON and the GEI KI SAI, that were the first ones katas that - as such - were trained.
Then Master Akamine unified those two exercises trained by Master Seitoku Higa in a single form, and called it "UKE GO DAN" Kata, modifying the sequences - and some movements - of its techniques, so it served as introduction to Gei Ki Sai Katas.
Initially Uke Go Dan didn't have "Kiai", because Master Akamine sustained that the Kiai should be emitted where - and when - the performer felt, and not as a predermined technique.
Later on - when his most advanced students arrived to professors, and because of the Western shyness to emit the Kiai - they decided incorporate it, coinciding all in the same technique (Uchi Uke), because it was the most adequated defensive technique, in a line of Karate that sustains that in the defensive techniques the Kiai should not be emitted.

Jointly with UKE GO DAN - and always based on existent forms - Master Seiichi Akamine structured another two Katas to those he called "ENPI GO DAN" (five elbow blows) and "TZUKI GO DAN" (five variants of fist blows and two variants of ippon ken, structured in five sequences or times).

Years later, observing that Western people had difficulties of adaptation to the open hand techniques, Master Akamine created another two katas that he called "TE KATANA GO DAN" (five blows of border hand), and "TEI SHO GO DAN" (five techniques of palm hand).
These two forms - that they were absolute creation of Master Akamine - jointly with the previous three (UKE, ENPI and TSUKI GO DAN), are the base of a style that it was gestating, and that later on Master Akamine would consolidate.

Around these five katas, and seven leg techniques, Master Akamine structured a series of kihon exercises that, together with a calisthenics and a scientifically studied gymnastics, conformed a new teaching method - of the style Goju - that we can affirm it was developed iin occident.

Finally, he decided that this new method became a style in itself, and he called it "KENSHIN RYU".
In Kenshin Ryu, UKE GO DAN is one of the most important katas, because it is the first one to train, and - as consequence - the one that begins the students in this style.

Karate is not a martial art characterized by its leg's techniques. As the meaning of its name indicates (empty hand), Karate puts the accent in the arm's techniques, using only those kicks that each style understands are the most effectives.
Master Akamine chose seven of these kicks, and around these techniques he created a very complete and demanding training's system, that goes by calisthenics, gymnastic exercises, elongation, kihon, practical applications (bunkai), and jumps.
These seven kicks are: "MAE GERI", "YOKO SOKUTO GERI" (also called Yoko Kansetsu Geri), "USHIRO GERI", "UCHI SOKUTO GERI" (also called Uchi Komi Geri and Uchi Kansetsu Geri), "FUMIKOMI KAKATO GERI", "HIZA GERI" and "MAWASHI GERI" .

In "KENSHIN RYU style", five of these kicks have also the variant known as "TOBI GERI" (FLYING KICK).

Sensei Juan Carlos Rius ("Pa Chi"), understanding that in the katas of Kenshin Ryu style there was few kicks, created a kata to the one he called "SHICHI KERI KATA", that contains the seven leg's techniques that Master Seiichi "Shikan" Akamine had chosen as the most effective.

Although he authorized to use the name "SHICHI KERI KATA" (Chinese pronunciation of the Kanji), because of his believes and knowledges of KAETE, Master Akamine preferred the name "NANATSU KERI KATA" (Japanese pronunciation of the Kanji).

"SHICHI KERI KATA" or "NANATSU KERI KATA" - and the seven kicks that it shows - are other characteristics that distinguish "KENSHIN RYU" of the rest Karate's styles.