1995 October 21 - Suparinpei Kata - Katherine Loukopoulos - Kadena Air Base Falcon Gym, Okinawa.

In the United States and in Japan, Martial Arts practitioners trained diligently in order to demonstrate their particular art via kata. We did not train differently for a tournament. Preparation for a competition and/or for a demo was the same thing. We took pride in showing off our styles; there was no observable animosity among the contestants. We competed, yes, and via training we tried to become better in order to reach our opponents, and to surpass them. I look back to those years with nostalgia...