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The Ketan is a series of movements that one can use to practice proper form as a form of training for fighting. It can be compared to tai chi or any martial arts kata. Ketan is an Adem word. While it is not explicitly stated that this is true, it can be inferred that different fighting paths among the Adem may use different Ketans.
In TWMF, Kvothe first learns the Ketan from Tempi .
At the end of Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe begins practicing the Ketan again.
Ketan movements[]
- Catching Sparrows : ( 1st position ) hand upheld, feet rooted - vulnerable at shoulder and hip
- Open Hands : ( also 1st position? ) perhaps an alternate name for catching sparrows
- Dance Backward : balance here is crucial
- Chasing Stone : used to trip opponent
- Catching Rain : to counter Hands Like Knives
- Fast Inward
- Striking Forward : can be combined with Turning Breath
- Thrown Lightning : an attack
- Pressing Cider : involves a duck and spin
- Maiden Dancing : a strike
- Fifteen Wolves
- Heron Falling : sweep high, lunge low to strike with hands, elbows, or shoulders - vulnerable at knee, under armpit, shoulder
- Thunder Upward : grab and throw upwards/to the side
- Grandmother Gathers : ( 13th position )
- Play Lute : ( 38th position )
- Sleeping Bear
- Drifting Snow
- Maiden Combs Her Hair
- Lover Out The Window
- Fan Water
- Hands Like Knives
- Sowing Barley
- Turn Millstone
- Break Lion
- Ivy On The Oak
- Bargeman At The Dock
- Sparrow Strikes the Hawk
- Climbing Iron
- Turning Breath
- Threshing Wheat
- Mother at the Stream
- Picking Clover
- Twelve Stones
- Circling Hands
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Real-World References and Parallels[]
The concept of the Ketan is almost undoubtedly a reference to the real-world study of Kata (型 or 形 - literally, "form") which involve the training of detailed choreographed patterns of movements, in many eastern martial arts.