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I'm in the same situation as a new co-instructor for our junior class. I have bought the e-book 50 KidsGames, and have found some good stuff on the website "karateteaching". But Best of all, I have found good advise in this forum Thank you everybody for sharing your experiences. It's very appreciated!

Aye MasterPain - you've got a point there. Thanks! Is a great help to hear all the different games, I look forward to try them out this week.

Call it chi or just muscle tension. I learned, that when you relax in your muscle while your fist is "on its way to the target" and tense it just before the target, you are simply able to move faster. And the same with the hips! Tensed muscles makes you more stif.

I'm 1. kyu as well and somehow I think I can never train enough. I can always make my katas better and my kumite is surely not good enough. But I have a working life and a family life as well, and I can only spare as much time as I can. I have no rush getting 1. Dan, but as long as I give it all I can, it's up to my sensei to see when he believe I'm ready. I would say - leave it to your sensei.

Thank you very much Wastelander. The drills in the book I bought are of the same kind, but apart from the dodgeball, those you mention are new to me. Wery usefull - I thank you for that. While learning to train my hunting dog, I learned to use a technik called back- chaining. Now I wont compare children with dogs ;0) but I was wondering if I could use the same technik for learning a kata. The idea is: You split the kata up in smaller parts and start teaching the last part. Then you take the second last part and the last part together, then the third last part with the others and so on. I haven't tried it out yet though.

Hi I would like to improve the karate lessons for our children’s class and make it more inspiring and fun. So I was searching the net to see what I could find. I bought the eBook 50 Kids Karate Games and find many of the exercises useful. I still would like to find a way, to make the kata and kihon easier to understand and remember. Does anybody here have some good ideas on how to do that? I appreciate all feedback.