Need Some Ideas, Please.

[dyeguy0807]

I'm the assistant intructor of a Shotokan dojo and I was wondering if anyone knew of some fun drills for kids to improve balance or control. We do a few basic excercises for both but I'm just wondring whats out there.

Thanks

[pegasi]

You might read through the "instructor central" section... there's tons of stuff on activities to do with a class, plus a lot of other useful topics.

[dyeguy0807]

Thanks a lot! I'm very new to this forum...

[Takusankage Soke]

a good exercise for kids to practice balance with is:

-Have them stand on one foot

-Have them place their lifted foot on the knee of the leg on which they are standing

-They will most likely lose their balance at first so have them invision a horizontal line

This is very basic but it works great for most children

[G95champ]

Kata with your eyes closed.

[KamasandSais]

Tell them to look up and close there eyes and spin around really fast then who ever stays up the longest wins!

Or...

You could have them hold a round kick out and stay up untill theres only one person left.

[bushido_man96]

Kata with your eyes closed.

This exercise is very good for working on kinesthetic awareness. I should do it more often, as well.

[G95champ]

We do a lot of blind kata espcially before the student tests.

We also do the kata backwards and the mirror immage as well lots of fun but they getter pretty hard.

We do the drunk kata too like the guy said above spin 25 times stop and do your kata.

[bushido_man96]

Those sound like good ideas to break up the routine forms workouts. Great stuff!

[NewEnglands_KyoSa]

blind fold them for basic drills with their own belts. works like a charm and they love it for whatever reason!