Online training can't replace proper dojo sessions totally, because of the interactive part of karate that is needed to try out and improve actual combative techniques. However, I have always been prepared to learn online where necessary and now is absolutely the right time to do this.
I can now attend three classes a week rather than one, as I am working from home, so there is a big plus for a start. The live classes are then supplemented by doing kata and videoing it, and sharing with our Sensei. They then provide feedback on how to improve your techniques.
Here is a short summary of the two midweek lessons for this week, plus links to a couple of videos of kata and kihon pracitce, as samples of what I do.
The first midweek lesson was on Monday, 23/03.
After an extended warm up, Mokuso and formal greetings, we started off working on some aspects of fundamental techinques:
Uke - jodan uke, chudan uke, gidan uke
Uke on the pads, with potential uses as strikes
Kihon gata 1 - 4
Then closed out with 10 minutes of kata.
It was a good work out, interesting working out the space for two working indoors. Using zoom completely drained the iPad. Took three days to recover it.
Rough kihon gata practice
The second midweek lesson was on Thursday 26/03
After an extended warm up, Mokuso and formal greetings, we started off working on the Quadrant drill, padwork first: Jab on pad, Cross on pad,Hook on pad, followed by practicing the whole in combination:
Jab, cross, hook
After that we looked at the defending moves:
Right hand parry, move head to right on jab
Left hand deflect, flow through into open hand strike to cross
Step in triangular parry and strike to hook
Followed by working on the parry, deflect / strike, triangle combination.
This was folowed bt looking at the second set of attacking moves, firstly on a solo pad and then in combination:
Hammerfist, looping left and hook
This was followed by kata warm down
MFirst phone ran out of charge after 40 minutes, lost five minutes in swapping phone over to back up, Beginning to realise i=using zoom comes at a price.
Another session today ro off to bed. Please stay safe :!
Morning kata
No comments:
Post a Comment