Since I'm training BJJ now, I figured I wouldn't double up on grappling by continuing my return to Judo. That frees me up to pursue karate training! We're doing kind of a traditional karate curriculum, but supplementing it with occasional drills and ideas from other arts as well.
After starting with the aikido walking kata, we looked at seven karate stances and how they might show up in reality. Yoi (as the "interview" position, natural stance, hands in front), hanmi (kind of a natural fighting stance), kiba (horse-riding stance / jigotai), zenkutsu (front stance), kokutsu (back stance), nekoashi (cat stance), and gankaku (crane stance). We practiced walking with front, back, and horse stance, and looked at how cat and crane are transitory and when they might briefly show up.
We talked about striking with a fist vs a palm strike, and practiced punching "the corners" while keeping punches straight, elbows in, and generating power with hips and steps.
Next we practiced walking with front stance while practicing the punches from tennokata.
Finally, we looked at the first handful of motions in heian 1, and the related bunkai. We're going to be approaching the bunkai from the most common forms of attacks that occur in real life, as laid out in the HAOV study.
No comments:
Post a Comment