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Squat, mae geri left, squat, mae geri right jump 180 face back Squat, mae geri left, squat, mae geri right jump 180 face back kamae position front leg pull sagari ura, back leg mae geri, land front, jodan mw geri, ura
The key is to stay rooted and not move during the punch. Tighten the wrist and sharp exhale on every punch. I need to work on my left hand. This is the result:
1. same hand punch twice x 50 (focus on twisting of hips and straightening of hands) 2. in kiba dachi, shift weight to left gyaku tsuki (train body movement to dodge punches, by shifting of body weight) 3. in yoi dachi, do a seiken chudan tsuki
Weapons training isn’t “necessary.” And many fighting disciplines do just fine without training in any weapons. However training in weapons that you probably will never need to use can help you better understand your empty hand training and fighting. Rather than being separate from the weapon or practicing as if you [...]
Training conditions Like it or not, the training environment: call it dojo, dojang etc…plays an important role in your training. The traditional dojo used to be bare earth, practitioners train bare foot, naked sole on brown earth because people were poor then and martial artists used to be farmers who learn [...]
There’s a very real danger that people who seriously overdo it will be taken out the game (while exhausted) by someone who trains much less but has enough energy left in the tank to pulverise them. but there’s a fine line; between doing enough to feel powerful and effective and being [...]
photo credits to kyokushinds.hr KIAI The first thing that attracted me to martial arts was the kiai. I was walking past a school that had its martial arts class 3 storeys up and I was curious what the people are shouting about. That was my first introduction to the martial arts [...]
Even the word is boring. Repeat, doing the same things over and over again. Some people hate repetition because to them, it poses no challenges to the mind. So what if I punch 500 times, they say? What is difference of punching blocking 10 times, and blocking 100 times? What am [...]
