Adding to my home practice

For myself,  noticed that my kicks haven't improved as much as some other aspects of my Karate.  Mostly it seems to be working my upper and lower body together thats the issue, my arms and my feet don't seem to want to work as one.

As a result, there is nowhere near as much accuracy in my kicks as there needs to be. So I went looking online for some ideas.  What I came up with was to hold my hands on my hips whilst kicking low.   This doesn't help with the Mawasha Geri kick, but should help with the Yoko and Ushiro Geri kicks.

I've been trying this for a few weeks now and I think its made a difference.  I've added a video here for reference:

In addition to this, my mentor has noticed that my punching posture is sloppy as a result of my elbows throwing out sideways as I punch.  So both as Cardio-Vascular exercise and to improve my punches, he has suggested doing slow Choko Tsuki punches, concentrating on keeping my arms by my side whilst punching.  He had earlier suggested added an extra stretch into my routine (bending at the waist, hands down by ankles), so I have added another video to show my attempts at both:

Finally, I have enough confidence to practice my slow Kata outside now, and on the day my son recorded the below video with me, he went through all the Naihanchi Kata, plus we did flow drills.  Both the specific one we use in our dojo and the Naihanchi drill as I believe is taught by Sensei Abernethy.  No videos of those though, we were a little involved at the time 😊😊