{"id":3198,"date":"2014-12-16T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-12-16T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:42:42","slug":"karate-sparring-drill-improve-awareness-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/karate-sparring-drill-improve-awareness-agility\/","title":{"rendered":"Karate Sparring Drill to Improve Awareness and Agility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video from earlier this year of some of my junior students showing a fun yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/karatedrills\">challenging sparring exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the floor is covered with cones. The objective is to spar without knocking over a cone. So the rules for this particular match were you score a point for every technique you landed on your opponent, and also another point for every cone your opponent knocked\u00a0over.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"California Shitoryu Karate\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKgZ_uRAOPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This exercise helps develop spacial awareness and agility.\u00a0Surprisingly my students rarely knocked over any cones which got me thinking how could I make this sparring exercise even more challenging?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few more ideas for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1) Add more cones<\/p>\n<p>2) In the event a cone is knocked over, the other person wins by default.<\/p>\n<p>3) Make the sparring area smaller<\/p>\n<p><em>(For a full list of my awesomely creative skill building karate drills and exercises check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/karatedrills\">125 Dynamite Drills here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you think of other ways to enhance this exercise? If so, post &#8217;em below!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video from earlier this year of some of my junior students showing a fun yet challenging sparring exercise. As you can see the floor is covered with cones. The objective is to spar without knocking over a cone. So the rules for this particular match were you score a point for every technique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198"}],"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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}