{"id":1377,"date":"2012-10-23T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2012-10-23T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:50:45","slug":"the-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/the-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Octopus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an awesome end-of-class kids’ karate game<\/a> you can do with your youngest students, that’ll send them home with big smiles on their faces.<\/p>\n

I thought of this one last week during my peewee class (4-7 years), and have named it The Octopus!<\/em><\/p>\n

Be warned,<\/strong> your youngest karate kids will lose their freakin’\u00a0 minds when they play this…<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because it combines challenge and fun, agility and speed, awareness and reaction.<\/p>\n

It also uses the video game concept of “defeating the boss”<\/em> – and let’s face it, who doesn’t like to take out The Boss<\/em> against impossible odds?<\/p>\n

I can assure you that your karate kids will – especially when they get to defeat the sensei, or in this case The Octopus!<\/em><\/p>\n

Before You Start:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

First you need some extra belts for this game. Nine in total.<\/p>\n

Cut a 2 foot length from one of the belts. This is your “flag”. Now take the flag and tuck it in the back of your belt so it looks like this…<\/p>\n

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The other 8 belts will be your tentacles. Use different colors if you can to make it more fun, easier for your students to see, etc.<\/p>\n

Objective:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The objective is for your students to defeat you, The Octopus!<\/p>\n

The objective for you, The Octopus is to defeat your students.<\/p>\n

How It Works:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Take 4 belts in each hand and hold them by the end so you have 8 tentacles.<\/p>\n

Have your students spread out and surround you in a circle.<\/p>\n

On your command the game begins at which point you move around and swing your arms and try to hit your students with your tentacles.<\/p>\n

Their mission is to steal the flag from the back of your belt, which is a fatal blow to you, The Octopus.<\/p>\n

Each student who gets hit by a tentacle is defeated and is out of the game and must sit down at the edge of the room.<\/p>\n

The game continues until all students have been eliminated or until The Octopus has been defeated.<\/p>\n

When swinging the belts be sure to change the angle of your strikes, forcing your students to remain alert and agile.<\/p>\n

Make them duck, jump and move as you attack.<\/p>\n

Of course be careful, swing the belts slowly and give your kids a chance to win.<\/p>\n

Warning:<\/strong><\/span> Playing this kids’ karate game<\/a> will cause HIGH levels of excitement and enjoyment for all involved – even for you. You may also find kids will be extremely disappointed when the game is over, and beg for more…<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’\u00a0 minds when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}