Karate lessons Wednesday

3 classes

Karate for fun 5:10-5:40

Karate for fitness 5:40-6:10

Karate for flexibility 6:10-6:30

Contact for codes or found in FB members group

5min karate lesson

Here is today’s 5min lesson

Tomorrow live lessons begin. Codes are in the FB Bunbu Dojo Members page. Or message

New Lesson

Today’s 5min karate lesson is on two primary stances

Front stance
Back stance

Why not send me a photo of your front and back stances

#karateforlife

Practice at home

Practice this at home?
Online lessons coming soon

Part 1 of 5

Building up to 2 kata

#karateforlife

So I’ve been thinking about the next stage of online learning. I would like something that students can dip in and out of and that appeal to all levels without taking it too serious yet maintain a good standard to return with.

Here’s my thinking…

Live Classes:
1. Karate for fitness
Classes with an emphasis on drills and the ‘highs’ of exercise classes

2. Karate for technique
All the punches, kicks, strikes and blocks of the current syllabus

3. Karate for health
Core strength and flexibility to develop those deep stances and high kicks

4. Karate for fun
All the things I love about karate. Competition drills, games and reaction exercises.

5. Karate to share
(Future teachers only). This is not an easy class. Train like a sensei to one day be the sensei.

Prerecorded
6. Karate for Life
Kata drills that you can practice in space at home in your own time.

Timetable to follow soon.

Examinations

Can anyone who wishes to test for the next belt over the next few weeks please email

Hqkarate@gmail.com

ASAP for next steps

Saturday Class

SATURDAY CLASS

I’m feeling very unwell today so I have to cancel the class today.

If I have equipment for you contact me and I’ll find a way of delivering it over the next few days

Why all the squats?

If you have been in Karatedo as long as me, you must have racked up a decent amount of squats over the years!

Karatedo and the squats are a match made in heaven: Loading those legs and building up the strength and depth needed for stances. The “prettier” the stance – is often down to ankle flexibility so… if you’re like me then your stances will never look like the picture perfect Japanese

We start our karate-journey with a easy enough starting position:

Our feet under our shoulders. Easy? For children – our starting position is under perennial change. As we grow our stance grows with us; sitting under our new frame.

Next. Bringing our feet together we would lose stability if not for the depth we create.

From this stance the techniques we learn need a stance to land in at a height about equal to the feet together stance and that starts to require a degree of athletic development.

Front stance (Zenkutsu Dachi) hips forward

The front leg’s “right angle” can be the beginners first taste of lactic acid and lifelong journey of building up resistance. So you are going to need:

Though an exaggerated position, front stance seems to be treated well by the vast majority of students. However, the backstance…

Putting the weight over the back leg until a right angle is achieved whilst trying to keep the foot underneath the knee and underneath the foot requires an increase in athletic ability and flexibility…