A deep, fixed posture is great for training in the basic Karate Moves - but may be fatal in a fight. Ultimately the Karateka should not be conscious of stance. Take a look at any serious Kumite match and you will see free-flowing movements, not rigid posturing.Ĭorrect practice of Karate stances strengthens the legs and hips and leads to ‘fluid’ motion. If Karate stances are ‘held’ a moment longer than necessary, mobility will be restricted giving the opponent a chance to strike. They are simply the best position to perform against an imaginary fixed target, not a real moving one! The ‘frozen’ leg positions we see in Karate forms known as kata and basic Karate Moves Kihon are ‘point in time’ poses. This video is based on Iain Abernethy’s ‘Training Martix’ which can be viewed here.
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One layer not included is the need for live and free partner work which gives an opportunity to improvise and adapt to a resisting opponent. In this video, I will walk you through three layers of the same kata-based drill.
By layering our training we can develop all the skills we need but at the same time we constantly replace one flaw with another. One dimensional training can lead to the development of scars or bad habits that may endanger us should we need to protect ourselves some day. We can’t get a feel for distance, targets or all the subtleties associated in grappling. The obvious problem is that we don’t have a training partner. Kihon can be useful in that we can work on proper technique, move with speed and there is no chance for injury. Pad work allows us the opportunity for percussive impact but introduces other scars the pads may be in the wrong place for the targets they represent, they may be too far from the actual head we need to control and so on. The advantage of partner drills is the fact that we can deal with a real person we have real limbs to clear, a real body to off-balance etc., but we can’t hit with any significant impact for safety reasons. If not addressed, a training scar can result in dangerous habits. Training scars are the result of unavoidable flaws in our training.
"In Karate-Do My Way of Life", Funakoshi wrote about ground fighting as a boy in Okinawa. That said, I believe that all karate-ka should have a minimal level of proficiency in ground fighting (newaza). In self defense, we must strive to stay on our feet in case a by-stander should choose to intervene. From there the drill resets with positions reversed. The uke uses a simple gyaku waza technique to escape and get into guard. This should cause the uke to cover up allowing you to seize on arm and use an enpi application (Movement #1). Following the guard pass are punches from mount. It starts with a guard pass I learned at Iain Abernethy's May 2019 residential seminar. This very short flow drill loops indefinitely, allowing for lots of repetition with a compliant uke. For karate practitioners interested in self-protection, a minimum ground-fighting skill set is essential. Modern karate has lost much of the old school grappling techniques in favor of a sport-oriented focus. Like species, karate must evolve or face an uncertain future. The practical karate movement is growing all the time. Karate that is all 'do' and no jujitsu is a hard sell when there are so many choices including, Muay Thai, BJJ, Krav Maga and other martial arts that are based purely on functionality. Now, the public is better educated in the martial arts world.
Karate was declawed and pacified to suit Japanese society at the time. For this reason, karate took on a new direction, one with a goal of strengthening the minds and bodies of its participants, and later for sport. Itosu and Funakoshi realized that karate had to conform to the Japanese 'do' ethos if it were to survive. Times change, the world changes and obviously the martial arts must change too.” That quote was from Gichin Funakoshi's autobiography, "Karate-Do, My Way of Life". “Hoping to see Karate included in the universal physical education taught in public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. This is a brief overview of my blog post, "Karate: A Call for Change".
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