Traditional training?
Punching from one end of the dojo to the other end, to and fro to and fro, with different techniques...
This was what we have been doing almost for one and half hour, with only a two minutes water break in between.
This is one of the more 'traditional training' that I know of.
But to really train, it is not just doing it, but also doing it the right way. How much power one puts into the punch, how much care one does to ensure the balance of the whole body, how much effort one does to ensure that the stance is moving in the correct manner and is always correctly placed?
They form the basic of the person.
True when we are doing kumite, we don't really do cat stance, zenkutsudachi, or whatever stance that we learn. But the basic training are to stregthen our muscle, and we will be standing in a mix stance of all the stance that we learn, depending on the situation.
The more important thing is flexibility.
A lot of people like to ask this, "Why do you practice kata? Do you think that the person will definitely kick after punch? What if the person don't kick after punch? Then the sequence of the kata will bring you to danger!"
But that is not the whole point of kata!
When one practice kata, it is an imaginary oponent doing that set of technique alright. But in real situation, apply individual technique according to the situation, not blindly do what we always do in that one particular kata.
But it will be quite difficult to apply technique in kata nowadays. It was a form of training traditionally, with technique that is design to kill at first strike. A lot of them aim at the weakest point of human being.
I used to think why there are such short punches in Kata, I used to doubt whether are we able to apply it. That time, the only 'fighting' that I knew was the kumite for competition.
Today's training ade me rethink. Sensei has a lot of movement, to move in so close to the oponent to attack. At those distance, perhaps it is difficult to punch the punches that we normally do in kumite competition, but the punches that we learn in Kata can be put into good use.
Today's 一言: Shall we learn it in the traditional way?
This was what we have been doing almost for one and half hour, with only a two minutes water break in between.
This is one of the more 'traditional training' that I know of.
But to really train, it is not just doing it, but also doing it the right way. How much power one puts into the punch, how much care one does to ensure the balance of the whole body, how much effort one does to ensure that the stance is moving in the correct manner and is always correctly placed?
They form the basic of the person.
True when we are doing kumite, we don't really do cat stance, zenkutsudachi, or whatever stance that we learn. But the basic training are to stregthen our muscle, and we will be standing in a mix stance of all the stance that we learn, depending on the situation.
The more important thing is flexibility.
A lot of people like to ask this, "Why do you practice kata? Do you think that the person will definitely kick after punch? What if the person don't kick after punch? Then the sequence of the kata will bring you to danger!"
But that is not the whole point of kata!
When one practice kata, it is an imaginary oponent doing that set of technique alright. But in real situation, apply individual technique according to the situation, not blindly do what we always do in that one particular kata.
But it will be quite difficult to apply technique in kata nowadays. It was a form of training traditionally, with technique that is design to kill at first strike. A lot of them aim at the weakest point of human being.
I used to think why there are such short punches in Kata, I used to doubt whether are we able to apply it. That time, the only 'fighting' that I knew was the kumite for competition.
Today's training ade me rethink. Sensei has a lot of movement, to move in so close to the oponent to attack. At those distance, perhaps it is difficult to punch the punches that we normally do in kumite competition, but the punches that we learn in Kata can be put into good use.
Today's 一言: Shall we learn it in the traditional way?
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