basic drills

[pandaGIRL]

hello everyone,

what are some basic drills you enjoy doing ? i'm still a beginner here.. (only 2-3 months at it

[Nidan Melbourne]

Depends on what i'm wanting to focus on in any one day. 

Having been in the game for a long time now, and I'm training on my own; I like to go by feel and listening to my senses outside of sight. 

Why? because if your in a situation where you lose access to your vision; then you need to rely on everything else at your disposal. 

Kata - I go through the "Standard" way, then change it up. I did some on the beach recently, including in the water. 

Pre-Arranged Sparring - "Solo" Edition. Makes you look like a complete Psycho, but this allows you to work on that internal intensity outside of class. 

[sensei8]

Kata is as basic as it can get when looking for something to drill. Not saying that Kata itself is basic but drilling Kata requires a lot from the individual, and that isn’t basic.

[aurik]

I really enjoy doing our 2-person drills with a partner who really pushes me to do my best.  There are a handful of partners I truly enjoy training with -- they are strong enough, fast enough, and skilled enough that I need to be at my best to keep up with them.  It's a real joy to train with partners that bring out the best in you.

[bushido_man96]

Whatever doesn't aggravate my knees that day....

But seriously, working basic punching, either shadow boxing, more "basic" style punching and moving in stances, or working on a bag.  I always try to focus on my hip twist and getting my body into my strikes, whether on the bag or in the air.

I like to work on blocking movements as well, working different methods of the blocks and play around with applications using various segments of the movement as defenses and counters to various attacks.

[Wastelander]

I think you'll find that a lot of us tend to do kata when we are training by ourselves. It's a convenient training method for improving your skills while you're alone. If I have equipment, though, I'll generally go for drills that use the equipment, so it depends on what you have available.

[sensei8]

8 hours ago, Wastelander said:

I think you'll find that a lot of us tend to do kata when we are training by ourselves. It's a convenient training method for improving your skills while you're alone. If I have equipment, though, I'll generally go for drills that use the equipment, so it depends on what you have available.

Absolutely!!

There’s so much to Kata than memorizing the embusen. Because of that, drilling said kata over and over on the intricacies that belongs to said kata is critical.

[Wayofaswede]

I do the very first 5-block kata I learned every morning and night every day

I also have a short sequence that I make sure to do once a day - even at work - that takes a minimum space. It is sometimes changed slightly as I learn new techniques,

currently it consists of:

- low block one side, middle block other, high block first (both sides)

- same but all three blocks on the same side (both sides)

- "block-pull-hammer fist combination" (both sides)

- high, middle, low, punch (both sides)

- sanchin- like circular and push closed hands (both sides), focus on the exhale as in Sanchin/Tensho

- same but with open hands (both sides)

- block, nukite, block (both sides)

- a nice combo kancho showed us consisting of: strike-uraken-elbow-strike-elbow-strike (both sides)

A great little routine that takes a minute or two and puts me in the "karateka" mindset and puts focus on deep breathing. Perfect before facing challenging classes (I'm a teacher at a public school ) that will put your patience to the test.

 

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Edited yesterday at 12:33 PM by Wayofaswede

[Nidan Melbourne]

This was part of my morning training from yesterday, I did add that note section just in case I forgot what shorthand I used also I knew that if I shared I could make it easy to show you guys.