Karate Conditioning

"Karate conditioning" involves  many types of conditioning. Conditioning is when  for example you would punch a makiwara(a piece of wood) this would make your knuckles stronger and after time you would eventually not feel anything, conditioning toughens the parts of your body that need to be able to get punched or kicked.




Conditioning can also be done with a partner and this toughens up both of you at the same time, it toughens up your Stomach your fore arms your chest and many other parts of the body.

Karate Kumite

Karate kumite is the fighting part of karate, over your karate career you have learnt a whole lot of different techniques this the fighting is where you show how well you have learnt the techniques.
















A common misconception is when people think the fighting in karate is just to try and beat then other guy up but it is not, during the fight you don't want to just beat the guy you want to show all that you have learnt while at the same time everything is done with power and accuracy.
 

Karate bunkai

Karate Bunkai is a "fight" but is much more controlled and is practised lots and for long periods of time, bunkai is done with a partner, Bunkai is kata put to the test. The one side of the bunkai is the attacks and the other side is the defense. The defense is the kata side of the "fight".

Karate Kata

Kata is a Japanese word that describes a sequence of  detailed movements in a pattern which can be practiced in groups of three or solo. Kata is a one sided fight and contains a complete fight. You use all your stances that you have learned through your karate career.

Unison kata is kata done in groups of three and all the karateka are in time/sync they all move as if they are all one person same breath same speed same movement.

The Basic Leg Strikes of Karate

The fist leg strike you learn is a Kin geri( king girrie) a groin kick this kick is used in many kata, if done without control to a male recipient you will badly injure and maybe even destroy his chance of having children:


Mae Geri(my a girrie) is a kick to the stomach with the ball of your foot, is kick can wind someone if it is quiet painful at the best of times.

The Basic Arm Strikes of Karate

The first type of strike you learn is the basic punch for this strike you need to make sure you have a proper fist,your fist must look like this:

This is what a fist looks like.

The elbow one of the other first strikes you learn this strike can be done to the head or to any part of the upper body :

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Uraken Uchi (oo rah ken oochie) the back fist strike is a strike done with thefront two knuckles of your hand and can be done to the lower half of the face as well as the upper body:

Haito Uchi (High to oochie) is a strike to the back of the neck with the side of a open straight hand, if done correctly the strike is very helpful if not done correctly you may kill or badly injure your opponent:

Basic Stances Of Karate

The first thing you are taught in karate are the basic stances. Stance like the stance you use to bow and the stance you go into before you start a kata.
Your stances form the basis of all the things you do in karate if your stances are bad your karate will be bad, your stances also give you balance while doing karate.


The first stance you learn when you start is Musubi dachi (Mus uba dutch) the stance you use when you bow.

The next stance you learn is Heikō dachi (ekqua dutch) this is the stance you go into to get ready to start.

After learning your second stance you learn Sanchin dachi (sun shin dutch). The small stance.

 The last basic stance you learn is Zenkutsu dachi (Zen guto dutch). The long stance.