Kyokushin in Sabah
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Your first fight
You fight very well in class, yet freeze when you enter an official competition ring.
You planned to do combinations, yet your punches/kicks seem to have no effect on your opponent.
Some people thrive under fight stress, some just turn into jell-o, esp when they hyperventilate.
The below article was written with boxing in mind, but applies to any fight situation:
You have a gameplan, you know how you want the fight to go and when the time comes you head out of the dressing room and walk toward the ring with crowds of people cheering and screaming on both sides of you. Suddenly, as you realize you’re headed into combat, your pulse becomes a little quicker. Your mind starts thinking irrational thoughts and is no longer focused.
Head punch!
Training for head punch tournament started last Wednesday 23 June 2010.
We started off by strengthening our necks to absorb the impact of punches. Neck strengthening drills were interesting, most of them partner providing resistance.
On Friday, we practiced some head punch techniques: upper cut, roundhouse punch or hook, side stepping.
Then we suited up and punched each other’s heads with 10oz gloves. For head punches, foot work and head movement are important to evade the attacks.
More head punch kumite here:
Brooklyn Monk feature
Martial Arts Odyssey: Kyokushin Selengor (Part 1)
Brooklyn Monk, Antonio Graceffo travels to Selengor, Malaysia, where he meets Shihan Michael Ding, Malaysia premier instructor of Kyokushin. Billed as the world’s hardest karate, Kyokushin is one of very few traditional martial arts which is well respected in fighting circles. In Kyokushin they condition every part of their body for toughness and spar bare-knuckles, full contact. Watch Antonio wince as he absorbs bare-knuckle punches to the chest and abdomen. Punches to the face are not allowed, but kicks to the head and face are.
Kyokushin-kan Fukushima instructor’s camp
18 feb 2010
woke up at 630am. bus left at 7+am. 2 stops on the way to fukushima.
saw and touched snow for first time. Acted as Mandarin interpreter for China branch chief. Excuse me for my bad Mandarin.
Arrived at 1pm. trained pinan 1 -5 taught by shihan ishijima. fuku kancho showed some ground techniques.
After training checked into hotel. public nude bath again, oh no! met senpai hitomi kobayashi again after 2 years.
had japanese dinner with all.
branch chiefs were invited to give speeches and there was an award ceremony to a newly formed Technical Committee. slept early (sleeping on tatami is really comfortable for my back!) due to full day of training tomorrow.
19 feb 2010
Training started at 9am. learned bo kata, reviewed seienchin and gekisai sho.
Shihan okazaki showed some bunkai techniques for the kata. There was also mitt training session.
We had a brief photosession.
After dinner, everyone who was taking grading the next day practiced hard.
20 feb 2010
Training started with jo techniques and review of katas. grading started at 1pm.
All in all, came back with a better understanding of the katas and bunkai, bo and jo kata and application (kumi-bo), sai kata and better application of ikken. Made a lot new friends. Kyokushin-kan members are friendly and humble and the sense of friendship was very strong.