Month: October 2012

karate games teaching karate to kids

The Octopus!

October 23, 2012
Jason Stanley
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Here’s an awesome end-of-class kids’ karate game you can do with your youngest students, that’ll send them home with big smiles on their faces. I thought of this one last week during my peewee class (4-7 years), and have named it The Octopus! Be warned, your youngest karate kids will lose their freakin’  minds when […]

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How to correct karate technique

October 10, 2012
Jason Stanley
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“Stop leading with your head”, Sempai Steve yelled at me as he punched me in the forehead. “Osu”, I replied. Yet I had no idea what he meant. Bam! He hit me again. “Stop leading with your head!” “Osu!” Bam! He hit me for a 3rd time. This experience was getting old fast. I didn’t […]