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[...] color away from Karate nirvana. I have even heard that the brown belt student is considered the black belt apprentice by some. At this point, the Karate student has learned all of the basics and can [...]

[...] my Karate examination for Shodan and I made sure that I did everything I could to take my black belt on the day of my exam. I trained harder than ever before. I did over 300 katas in the two [...]

[...] One of the rules of Karate etiquette, in the club I belong to, is never leave a black belt standing without a partner when you are told to get a partner. This is extremely disrespectful [...]

[...] I have spent the last six months adjusting to being a black belt. I have learned some interesting things and one that stuck out, just recently, is the lack of [...]

[...] techniques to describe in text. Workout 1: From a ready stance: Step into a left leg forward front stance with a reverse punch Pull your left leg back into a cat stance with a low (gedan) knife hand [...]

[...] been doing Karate for many years now, he spent over two hours working on moving forward in a front stance because one of our senior Sensei’s corrected him the week before. Moving forward in [...]

[...] Here is where the light bulb turned on above my head. My Sensei had all of us get into a short front stance. From here he said tuck your tailbone under and do not let your hips face the floor, instead [...]

[...] a few times. I find that doing ten-no-kata with something as simple as stepping into a front stance with a front punch a few times is better than nothing. For those who truly do not want [...]

[...] around and suddenly someone throw a door open in front of you and who shift to the side and downward block the door without even thinking? It could also have a more Zen type meaning where each [...]

[...] ;t understand what you are doing in each move, it is hard to have purpose. The first move is a downward block to the left where someone is kicking at your lower body. If you just do the move, without [...]

[...] uke) Workout 2: From a ready stance: Turn left into a left leg forward front stance with a downward block and reverse punch Pull your left foot all the way back 180 degrees behind you, turn from your [...]

[...] of this concept in Iaido, not Karate class, I do feel that it certainly does apply to our Karate training. I was going through a kata and one of my fellow students, who was helping me with some kata [...]

[...] than kicks and punches and winning at tournaments. Below are some of the main things that my Karate training has given me that reaches far outside the dojo. The Karate family…. I am extremely [...]

[...] a solid grasp of kihon fundamentals. How could I have gone through five plus years of hard Karate training without doing such simple things as tightening my core when I punch or block and not focusing [...]

[...] my skills and prepare me for my next exam. After six months of what felt like constant Karate training, I was ready for my exam and felt so good in my mind, that I was ready to take my black belt [...]

[...] If you ask many Karate students what Karate has taught them you will hear many different answers. Some of those answers [...]

[...] he didn’t use a chair to stop one of his attackers at this exam. Another thing that many Karate students forget in a real life situation is it is ok to pick up a pipe, stick, garbage can lid, a [...]

[...] ’s corrected him the week before. Moving forward in front stance is something that many Karate students learned in our first Karate class yet it goes to show that there is always something that [...]

[...] If you ask many Karate students what Karate has taught them you will hear many different answers. Some of those answers [...]

[...] to adjust and learning to move naturally. Below is my interpretation of what my Sensei, Sensei Cieplik, has shared with me and is subject to change as I learn more about this over the coming years: [...]

[...] ;challenge your balance and your technique will rise.” This is a concept that my Sensei, Sensei Cieplik, shared with me many times over the years but it took me a long time understand. The words [...]

[...] or yellow belt where as we should look like a brown or black belt doing a lower rank kata. Sensei Cieplik has also mentioned many times, do lower belt kata with higher belt knowledge. So what does [...]

[...] our hands. This idea of not having a weapon because of the above reasons is something that Sensei Cieplik shared with me many years ago and he even told us that he didn’t pass one of his exams [...]

[...] – Outward block Shoto uke – Knife hand block Geri – Kicks: Mae Geri – Front Snap Kick Mawashi Geri – Roundhouse kick Yoko Kekomi Geri – Side thrust kick Yoko Keage [...]

[...] on pushing from my back heel when punching. I found out, just recently, that I was doing a front snap kick like a front thrust kick for well over a year even though one of my Sensei’s corrected [...]

[...] , with another Sensei that I have been training with for seven years, is corrections on my front snap kick. I have taken over 300 classes and 290 of classes I have gotten a correction on my front snap [...]

[...] Karate over the next 12 months or less. In late 2011, I set a goal to do at least one Karate kata (and one Iaido kata, the other art I am studying) every day going forward. My thoughts [...]

[...] like mister roboto, move from the hips, NOT, and none of my stances looked anything like a Karate stance. There is a list of things that I could pick apart but almost nine years later, I can side [...]

[...] I have a solution that will work even in the smallest of spaces. I have to credit one of my Karate Sensei’s, Sensei Noia, for giving me this valuable training tip and I want to share it with all [...]