Black Belt; the Karate journey has just begun.
First, let me back up to the beginning of June….. It was a week before 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 [...]
Japanese Karate terms and numbers (Updated)
June 14, 2010 by Doug
Filed under General, Karate Terms
Even though, my rank examination is now over, I still need to keep up on my Japanese Karate terms. This list is not all inclusive since these are only the terms that the examiners in my club use. Uke – Blocks: Gedan Barai – Downward block Age Uke – Rising block Soto Uke – Inward [...]
Learn the technique first, then make it better.
Just yesterday, I had a really great Karate class. This was a class where I learned to do something the correct way after trying to do it for over five years. The solution to this was so incredibly simple but it took me a very long time and some really simple words from my Sensei [...]