Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
Let’s be honest, this Covid 19 situation is beginning to take it’s toll on life and it’s unlikely things are going to get back to normal for a while if ever again. Home life has become a bit of the norm and adjustments have had to be made, going out as a family has meant staying in as a family, […]
So tonight was grading time and although I felt pretty relaxed about the whole thing maybe I was a little too relaxed, the grading started a little nervously to say the least but once I got going the confidence came back a bit and things started going better.
So today was the day that our junior white belt members Sam, Ben and Jaydan have been training so hard for over the past months, it was grading day where those white belts would become red belts taking them into the next journey of their karate careers! As I live with Jaydan I can tell you that she has been […]
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.
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 […]
Having only really just got heian shodan and heian nidan I have to say this was extremely complex and I probably sucked at it, but then I am game for the learning experience and it was great to get some sort of insight into what is coming up WAAAAAY down the line, almost thank god for that!
We regularly do Kata training in our classes but rarely do we dedicate the whole lesson to it, I guess because some may see it as a tedious task and want to mix things up a little.
The Taikyoku series is a series of kata in use in several types of karate. The name Taikyoku (太極) refers to the Chinese philosophical concept of Taiji. The Taikyoku kata were introduced by Gichin Funakoshi as a way to simplify the principles of the already simplified Pinan/Heian series. The embusen, or pattern of the kata’s movements, are the same as in Heian shodan. Students of karate systems that use the Taikyoku kata series are often introduced to them first, as a preparation for the Pinan/Heian kata. Gōjū Kai developed five of its own Taikyoku kata, based on the Shotokan katas and retaining the I-shaped embusen.
