looking at the website of the dojo you posted heimdall, this has nothing to do with bjj. if they've told you that, they've lied to you.
another thing that stood out for me.... apparently, this kam hock hoe person has 10th dan judo ranking, but NOT from the kodokan--which should be pretty easy to verify. i suppose it is possible to get 10th dan from an organization not the kodokan. but still, there's inconsistencies. i suppose it could just be textual. and i don't really know how we would verify this tenth dan. for instance...on http://www.minaputa.com/Soshi.html we get... but on http://ijji.org/ijji_history we get... which is it? judo or jujutsu? the kodokan is the main judo organization in the world and seemingly has only handed out very few judans in its history. to me, it seems like a problem i've seen in another art i've been in: grade inflation.
So I ran an experiment today, I was running our weekly recap class, (isolation rounds on the topic of the week, plus drilling some of the core fundamentals) and during warmups I found out. a) about 75% of Graded BJJers can do cartwheels b) 100% of graded bjj players cant do back flips unaided c) 100% of graded bjj players cant do 'good' backflips aided by a turtled partner. The sample group was a visiting black belt, 3 purple belts, and 5 bluebelts, none of the whitebelts can do backflips either!
https://thepantherscub.wordpress.com/about/the-panther/ looks like KHH was a pro wrestler. ^ his grandsons blog. ebudo mentions him by saying he may of trained at the butokukai and ran with it. (The original one, not the dodgy new ones)
So... BJJ does kata? This is new to me. I'm not being sarcastic, I've just honestly never seen a BJJ kata before.
Depends how you define kata BJJ has thousands of paired techniques or drills and a bunch of traditional SD kata
Nope, this isnt a BJJ school, the OP has been lied to At best its teaching a modern Jiujitsu style, mixed with some you tube grappling, and potentially misleading its students.
^ Thats just muddying the waters. if you define drills as kata, then all physical skills are kata, boxing is kata, running is kata, weightlifting is kata. which is plainly ridiculous.
Maybe I'm looking too much through the karate lens, because to me, kata is an individual form. A solo demonstration of something with an imaginary opponent. I guess I should youtube some JJJ kata.
A lot of so called JJJ, isnt JJJ, its freestyle self defense patterned after Aikido/Judo etc so Youtube isnt a good way to look at actual Japanese Jujutsu for context, unless you know what your looking for: to help this is actual JJJ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTpeCdANzA This is not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3pMq5cOx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73C0-Csx7U8
CLF has two person forms - both hand and weapon. But they are forms, not techniques or drills. As in, what you are probably thinking of, but with two people. Still, one student won't fail if the other one doesn't do good. I have to admit I am really having trouble with that idea. Sometimes, a student gets delayed in testing, because one has to have all their material up to test standards. And sometimes it is hard to find a regular two person partner to practice with to get it up to snuff. However, if that partner messes up during a test, it is not a fail for the other person. Sifu can tell who knows their material and who doesn't - even in a two person form. Sometimes, the person's instructor will be the partner for a test, although that is a last resort if a student just cannot help out for the test. They far prefer a person to test with a fellow student as their partner. I don't mean to be critical, but I guess I am of this idea. If I put in a lot of hard work to test, it shouldn't hinge on another student what my test results are.