Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
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.
Sorry if you have tried to view this site over the last few days and found it unable to be accessed. Unfortunately the server was hacked and so the website had to be taken down. Isn’t it a shame that some people seem to find it amusing to mess up the internet? Weak minded individuals if you ask me. They […]
Well training certainly took on a new twist yesterday (31.7.12). I was heading up to Edwinstree Middle School to open the Buntingford Karate Club dojo when I heard an alarm going off. Sure enough it was coming from inside the school. I unlocked the rear door to the gym and opened it and a barrage of noise hit my ears. Someone or […]
I spent some time this week going over the use of finger, wrist, arm and elbow locks in a street self defence, anti mugging situation. There is a very useful double handed X block (ju ji uke) that can be used to block, catch and then adapt to either a variety of locks, take downs or counter strikes. The students […]
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 […]
On Thursday (12.7.12) I had another student who was ready for grading. Abigail (or Abi) was going for 8th Kyu (Orange) belt. Abi is very keen on her karate but circumstances in her life have been conspiring to keep her away from the club more than she would like. For that reason she had beed stuck on 9th Kyu (Red) […]
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 […]
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!
One of the items of training that I regularly teach is self-defence against a knife attack. In this day and age it is a useful thing to know! I use rubber knives in the Training Hall (Dojo) and I get the attacks to come in as realistically as possible.
