Please give me some honest opinions on this kata. I don't know what style this is. https://youtu.be/P0eDt_C6_xg?

That's funny... I just watched this video yesterday for the first time. The style is called "Polecat".

http://www.mma-dojo.co.uk/polecatma.php

But, they profess to be an MMA school.

EDIT: I hate to pick on people with disabilities, I have no idea how they do what they do or the kind of dedication it takes. But, I agree that many things should be corrected, and which have little to do with blindness. His fingers appear splayed; his elbow strike is seems reaching for someone taller then he is (and he appears rather tall as it is); and his shoulders rise from time to time. These are basics which can easily be corrected.

From a technical perspective on self-defense while blind, he is doing himself no favors by practicing in a tiny quarters. Blind people rely heavily on echolocation, even if only moderately more so than sighted people. The enclosure prevents him from experiencing real-world scenarios, unless he spends most of his life in tight quarters as his dojo. Despite the dangers mentioned on the website, he would benefit better by being in a larger dojo - and can rely on his training partner to keep him safe. If he is limited in size due to resources, that's one thing; but otherwise, he should get a larger training area. Echolocation, or just reliance on regular hearing, would be more realistic in a more open setting - particularly if one were to perform a kata written for multiple attackers (which is a concept I really don't subscribe to; but, if that's what the form teaches, far be it for me to complain - it isn't my style).

EDIT: Ok, you solicited opinion on the kata, not the Karate-ka. I think the form itself is fine. What I don't know is what is being taught about the form. Any string of techniques can be a kata and can be more valuable to any kata - if that kata isn't properly taught. Someone said the form is a multiple-person attack form. Nope - I don't subscribe to that at all. I think that in any performance of kata, one should be mindful of other opponents. But I don't think one should change one's techniques simply because there "might" be someone else around: the quantum physics in that thought process is so staggering as to make any form useless to handle multiple people. I also don't think that his performance of it was all that great. Yes, he's blind - but he's also a "sensei". If someone is a sensei, then he gets critiqued regardless of his physical capacity. Sorry, but his form sucked.

And on that note... a "sensei"? I'm not up on Japanese martial art culture and hierarchy. But it would seem to me that a sensei should be first and foremost qualified to teach others. How can one teach others if one cannot see others? Sure, he might put together lesson plans, call out techniques to perform, and begin and end class, etc. But how will he evaluate or troubleshoot a student?

I can only comment on what I see from the video, can't see everything mind you but it appears all the techniques I can recognize are executed poorly. The person performing the form lacks coordinated body movement and his "techniques" are cut short and choppy. He looks the lower half of his body is removed from the upper half with no stance and God only knows which foot position he's trying for. Way too tense. Tension is used at incorrect times with the guy being way too stiff throughout but at least he is breathing. I watched the "bunki" for the form and I think these guys are actually headed in the right direction as far as that goes but their understanding of basic body mechanics, power generation, and stances/foot position is extremely lacking. Their attempted use of Japanese words is terrible like many others, so why even bother. They should seek qualified instruction for a few years and continue this stuff as a side project until they improve. A lot. I think these guys are amateurs but they don't realize it. If these two get in a fight they better have good medial insurance because they will be on the receiving end. Sincerely I hope they find a good instructor and continue on but not on their own and not they way they are now.

The guy that is the instructor in my opinion does not understand karate. He has probably trained for years but never learned the essence of karate. He attempted to reinvent the wheel by creating this kata. He says he is for multiple attacker and for today's society. He poorly misses on this in his kata. His applications can't be used if it was a real attack. He show a lack of understanding of bunkai. he just knows the word. He needs to find a good school and learn. The blind guy can only do what he has been taught. I feel sorry for him. I wish he had found abetter instructor. I'm proud of him for his efforts.

The fact that he is wearing a white belt kinda threw me off, because I thought it was just another novice trying to show off his moves online, then I noticed he was blind, so for a blind guy, the kata is remarkable in that you have to admire the hard work and dedication it took him to learn all that even without his sense of sight. But technically, by Karate standards, it's basically novice work and nothing impressive.

I had to look into this kata a little more. That person doing the kata is suppose to be a first degree black belt and the sensei, he is also blind.

And now after all my searching I just noticed possums link,

I really don't think much of him there is too much to many mistakes to even go through.

I am not familiar with this kata, but, accounting for the fact that the practitioner is blind, I am impressed. Sure, the techniques and stances are off, but, the guy must have spent untold hours learning this. He is displaying many of the tenets of martial arts.

Seems it is doing exactly what kata is meant to do

Drain $$$ from students pockets into the schools misleading people into thinking this will in any way ever be of any use to them.

Not one strike or kick he did would hurt anyone other than a toddler. I don't care if it is for form every strike and kick should be done with power and intent not patty cakes.

MA and blondie guys it's funny

If he's a white belt, the demo is really good and really impressive. If he's a black belt, it's really poor.