Mawashi-geri

From a stranger, I heard that sensei's mawashi-geri made him very famous. The speed and accuracy, topping up with flexibility and strength, it just made it more formidable.

The stranger said, "Asked your sensei how to do it."

Personally, I know the answer without asking.
Train, train, train harder and train more.... in the correct way, of course.

Sensei made us do Mawashi-geri today, as part of the training.
First is to stand with heisokudachi (feet close, toes all pointing forward). Pick up the leg with the knee tugged in, and then kick. The moment picking up the leg, it is important to rotate the Jiko-ashi (the foot on the ground) to make sure that the leg can reach further.
And repeat repeat repeat...
Then standing with shizen-dachi, using right leg kick to the left side, and left leg kicking to the right side. A lot of spinning, and a lot of balancing.
After that, is just kumite-gamae, kick mawashi and step forward. Lastly is kick mawashi with back leg, and step forward, and then pick up the front leg and kick again.

Do these training help? A lot of people wonder and doubt it.
The thing about Karate, is not that you just need to know the theory and it will work. One will need to keep on practicing and do a lot of traing, to build in this muscle memory, to learn the ability of coordinating the whole body movement, to train the muscle so that it is strong enough to control the movement exactly as we want it to be.

And as what have been said in one of the previous post, kicking slowly is useful in learning how to control. It builds up all the muscle that is required to kick the leg so that one will be able to kick with full accuracy and full control.

Today's 一言：It is that simple, just practice more.