Kyokushin Karate With A 13-Year Old

What is Kiai actually? You may often here it as “Aiyah! and Hiyah!” when someone is performing a technique. When I first heard of it, battle cry pop quickly in my mind. You know, to build up aggression and fighting spirit.
Yesterday I keep on forgeting to Kiai every after a technique we practice - that [...]

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Argh, this post is a bit late. I was supposed to post this yesterday but after I got home from my Karate session, I laid down to get some rest. Funny thing was, I fell down sleep - the next minute it was morning!
Anyhow, here it is Kyokushin Kan geris…
What we’ve done so far

Hiza geri [...]

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Just so you won’t miss the things we’ve done in the last 8 sessions or so, here’s a recap.
1st-2nd session
Nothing much really, we were just told to follow what we can. We did Mas Oyama’s warmup, tried to handstand, knuckle push-ups, sit-ups and this weird kind of stance called “Sanchin Dachi” (Click here to see [...]

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On the 2nd month of our school (I’m on 9th grade and our school starts every 2nd week of June) I saw this guy who was doin some Kata (choreographed forms, mostly used in martial arts) in our school lab. I approached him and asked “Are you doin martial arts?” In a snap he answered [...]

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