[Kiai]

Wikipedia had this on gun kata: Gun Kata, as a martial art, places emphasis on two tenets: shooting the enemy as efficiently as possible, and avoiding return fire. Hitting targets is a matter of knowing where enemy fighters are likely to be located in relation to the user, which removes the problem of aiming (especially at close ranges), not to mention allowing the user to defeat foes with pre-emptive fire before they can present a true threat. Avoiding return fire is also a matter of statistical probability, as Gun Kata users do not rely on bullet time-style evasions, but rather on avoiding the enemy's most likely lines of fire. In short, Gun Kata is the art of shooting where the enemy should be, while not being where the enemy should shoot.

I think I caught on to this style after seeing the final episode of Grenadier. The clip of their fight is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIOxsYDHWGc

There is a further clip of a movie called Equilibrium which further demonstrates the style:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkupFNDZ99I][/url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkupFNDZ99I

Being a black belt in taekwondo myself, I didn't think much about it until a couple japanese guys put on a show for us. Crazy, crazy, out of this world martial arts, coupled with the lethality of a gun (it was a BB gun, but still, it was fucking cool!) made the show beautiful.

[Black Howling]

Thats a pretty damn lethal Martial Art, would hate to fight someone who was a pro at it

[Hawkeye]

It was an intresting idea, I was actually looking into this for a piece that I'm writing for a story alittle while ago. It hard to get your mind round what some martial artists can do when they been training most of their life.

Remind me of something else I was looking into but for the love of God I can not remember at the moment

[Black Howling]

i was watching somethin here in the uk to do with Martial artists, there was this guy that just need to open his mouth to break glass and stuff, and appartnetly when two of his students where ordered to attack him, he knocked them over by yelling at them, but personally i dont know wether to believe it our not.

[Chimasterwang]

The Hard Qi Gong demonstrations are interesting. Things like bending a iron spear using your neck.
Wow Kiai black belt in a martial art good on you.
Id like to learn some kinda martial art preferable chinese maybe a animal style but i dont think ill have the chance to any time soon.

[Analog]

Isn't Chuck Norris: "TEXAS RANGER" a master of Gun Kata? Maybe it just seemed that way on TV.

[Stormfalcon]

One word regarding the movies: DAMN!!

The martial art looks really hard to coordinate. The people
who practice this kind of martial art are probably good at keeping their cool; staying calm and focused, no matter how scary or dire the circumstances.

Amazing!

[Kiai]

Gun kata, while hard to believe is a fairly old art that is really picking up, and I hope more weapons oriented anime pick up on the style as well. Grenadier was a really good example. Then again, martial arts anime are all kind of lacking anyway, so something fresh would be kinda interesting.

[Hawkeye]

Well I'm going to go out and try to put this into practist... I just know I'm going to be covered in welts after this...

[Chimasterwang]

Dr. Hatsumi teaches fighting with guns but his is more move out of line of fire break persons fingers to take gun shoot gun XD

[Maverick]

isn't gunmen supposed to stay a little away from their target? geez XP