white owl

I would like to apolgize for my miss spelling of xma (not mxa) my brain got ahead of my fingers and I did not realize until I hit submit.

I was recently in a tornament over the weekend. I did pretty well. But I have a complaint about it. For example katas, it is little hard to compete against some one doing flips and and jumping twisting stuff, and you do a traditional kata like chinte the judge always go for the jumping twisting fliping stuff. So how do you compete with that when you are to old to learn flips and stuff like it?

Keep your cool, stay focus, and don't think to much meaning let the techniques flow. thats some of the pointers gaven to me.

on hein sandan of the begining of the kata having the mental impression on what it does will help you get the movements down and I think you diffently got it here. Practice practice practice. It will come.

At my dojo we do this often. We usely do this after a good cardio work out so our legs and arms are all ready mush. But this is how we do it, we go through katas as a class up to where you know, and once you know more you continue doing the kata you did last while the higher kyus go on. It gets really hard the more katas you know. It is really fun on test day when you do cardio and then put through the paces of techniques and then you grapple, then spare and to top it all off you do katas on request that means you do katas in the order the sensei wants them. It can be very hard, so you really got to dig deep and breath, its all about breathing, but it is still hard.

As a shotokan practioner Green belt is in the middle of the ranks, it's ashame that you are getting bullied. parents put there kid's in karate to build their self esteem not to have torn down even more. I think.....you should talk to your instructor if you can, he may not be aware of the problem. I do not suggest quitting karate that does not teach you anything and the bullies win! I diffently look in to other schools, if talking to the instructor does not work.

This is going to sound a little strange but you can go to wikipedia to get katas