Safroot

That's great experience Sensei8, I have never expected such an effect of karate, It has changed your life 180 degrees if I am to think about your life without it!!

Kyokushin

I am in Sydney .. it's GKR GKR GKR !!

For me it's not a long journey, it's only 1 month journey. The major effects I can see are more happiness and improved fitness (still not the best but at least 10 times better than before)

Let's share our experiences, How did Karate change your life ?!

White belt --- Kyokushin karate

The earliest I know are the Pharaohs in Egypt about 7000 years ago, they were practicing WRESTLING (not sure if this is considered MA or not??), many temples and tombs shows scenes of people wrestling !! anyone knows something older

Solid post and nice videos

Take care guys wish you are all safe

done CT scan on my left ankle today .... I found an old fracture of small piece of bone that didn't heal and completely torn ligament. the good news is that the GP told me that I can continue training in Karate as long as I use an ankle support and recommended to start physiotherapy if the pain gets worse

Thank you

Yes Hawkmoon, totally agree with you and I have asked my GP abot training and he encouraged me to continue training after putting on an ankle support which I had done last class & it worked.

Thanks Hawkmoon .. so inspiring video. Btw, I have been referred by my GP for a left ankle CT scan tomorrow in addition to some stretching and strengthening exercises. Hopefully the pain decreases so I can train my left leg more.

Yes my sensei asked a 2nd Dan to do it with me

Very solid post as usual, thanks so much:)

I found this video for kids sparring .... It's really funny, wish you enjoy it https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=739582482726645

Don't worry you can do it. sorry I have no experience yet but I will be happy if you shared your experience with us after you do it

Same here, i used to dislike it as I was bit afraid of it (for this reason it was a major challenge for me) but once I've tried it, I liked it.

This right here is great advice. It would be a poor reflection on the sensei and his students if a novice student was winning all the time. Right now, when sparring is still very new to you, no-one expects you to win. You don't need to win in training. Sparring is only a tool for practicing your techniques in a live format. I think a lot of people forget, senior students included, that unless you are in a competition scenario, sparring is practice time and you should be using it achieve little goals. Every bout or training session, pick out something small which you are going to work on. It could be side kicks, it could be using your angles more, to not get hit by Bob Smith's reverse punch or even just to use your left leg more this time. Then work on improving that during each spar. Doesn't matter if you get kicked in the head 20 times in the process or if you "lose" the fight overall, if you can come off the mat and say you've improved a little in your chosen area then that is a victory. Totally agree with you & sorry for being unclear, yesterday sparring wasn't competition it was training but i was lost (confused) with techinques. Thank you for your great advice specially the left leg one for sure I will try it next time

Solid post

Thanks for advice Wastelander and sorry for not being clear, I meant lost in techniques not losing the sparring !

for sure I will, thanks for advice

Hi Guys, Today was my first sparring ... I was completely lost ... blocking kicks with my arms and exposing my face while kicking ... totally lost as I expected Need your advice guys on how to improve my sparring abilities ... this is my major challenge in Karate since I started and I want to be superior in it Any advice ??!!

Thank you

Thanks Nidan, I've always benefited from your posts alot