“Waaaa-taaaah!” “Hey karate-man!! whaaaaa!” The class walked by and while most smiled and waved, a couple of young boys made karate chops in the air while simultaneously running their mouths. What the hell? Was I being heckled by 4th graders? You bet I was… Part of me wanted to walk over and break the kid’s […]
We all want our students to be accurate with their technique, right? And we’ve all got karate drills to help our students hit targets, yes? However some drills, while they might help with one aspect of training fail in another. For example, you might have one person holding focus mitts, while their training partner hits them with certain combinations. […]
So you’ve seen 5 year old kids pull off remarkably sharp kata like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?autoplay=0&v=rFtt5M9IO7c&autoplay=false And you’ve seen competitors jump high like this (2:20): And you’ve probably got a handful of students who are *really* sharp too… But as aesthetically pleasing as these examples are, it surprises me how many students can’t actually apply the movements of the kata […]
