ways to help balance when not training???

[Killer Miller]

I'm going to take a wild guess on this one G59champ...

 

I'm going to guess that as long as you have trained, you are getting routine in your training and getting laxed on your basics. As you get higher ranked with more advanced in your training and technique, you tend to not train the basics as much do to so much advanced technique and training to learn - thus becoming less focused and balanced in general training and technique. But advanced technique is typically quite honed in at the same time...

 

Nishiyama was a BIG advocate of keeping the basics quite honed in as well as keeping the advanced concepts honed at the same time. Perhaps going back to all basics in your off training time and just working on simple basics - but with the same intensity as your advanced training.

 

- Killer -

[karategirl06]

Do your kicks very slowly thats what are instructor makes us do and you have to do 5 kicks very slowly on both legs w/o putting ur leg down.