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Kata is at the heart of karate, in order to grade it is essential to know katas, the higher belt you are the more katas you will know.
Well, first I must apologise for the length of time that we have been without a blog here on the Buntingford Karate Club site. I just do not know where the time went! A number of interesting things happened at the club in the last few weeks but coupled with interesting things at home I was not able to catch […]
Strange….but it’s happened again! I had a class full of upper belts on Tuesday 30th April from 4th Kyu (purple and white) upwards. The 4th Kyu is Harry and I have informed him that he is nearly ready for his brown belt (3rd kyu) so he is now practising like a thing possessed. As they were quite an experienced bunch […]
Well, the title says it all. But the answer is “on holiday”. By a strange coincidence most of the Buntingford Karate Club’s “lower” graded belts are also attending school and as it is our Easter Holiday break they had all gone away. And good luck to them I say! So I was left with a balance of “upper” belts from […]
Funny how the pendulum swings isn’t it? We have been having really good attendance lately but for some reason or other we only had six students turn up on Tuesday 19th….perhaps there was a football match on the TV…England v Brazil perhaps? Anyhow, it happens so you just deal with it. I had 1 purple/white belt, one brown/white belt, one […]
Another good week of training just gone by. Tuesday was well attended despite all the colds and viruses that seem to be lurking about lately. On Tuesday I decided to turn the lights out again and get the students to do 1 step sparring in the dark – and I mean DARK. It is however quite surprising how one’s eyes […]
So, this last week in the Buntingford Karate Club I have gone over the Black Belt kata Sochin (pronounced either So-Shin or So-Chin depending on what College you went to….stand by for Japanese reprisals on my pronunciation!!). I tend to say So-Shin with a gutteral sound for So (more like Sor than Sow). I had all of the students doing […]
I was pretty eager to get to training today as it was the last session for a while as the club will be closing down for nearly a month for summer holidays, but unfortunately due to work commitments I was running fairly late, so I rushed home to get kitted up and Jaydan and myself headed to the dojo as quickly as we could.
This week (Tuesday 17th and Thursday 19th July) I spent some time going over the Kata that the various students should be getting competent in. I have three new beginners in the club who normally come along on a Thursday but unfortunately Sam could not make it this week so Ben and Jaden went through Heian Nidan. Although they have not […]
So tonight after a little basic training we moved onto a Kata that I have until last night not even seen let alone performed, this was Heian Sandan. Heian Sandan is the next in line after the Kata I must do to get my yellow belt so it’s always good to get ahead of yourself with kata that may take […]
Last night (Tuesday 3rd July) I covered Side Thrust Kicks (yoko geri kekomi) and Roundhouse Kicks (mawashi geri) because a badly executed Kekomi kick can look like (and actually be) a mawashi geri kick. The delivery is all in the hip and knee action and little to do with your foot. Many students, and indeed many karate-ka believe that you […]
