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dyeguy0807
White Belt
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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Location: Louisiana
Styles: Shotokan
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: Need Some Ideas, Please. |
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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
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pegasi
Orange Belt
Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Location: USA
Styles: Shotokan Karate, Taekwondo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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dyeguy0807
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Location: Louisiana
Styles: Shotokan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot! I'm very new to this forum...
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Takusankage Soke
Yellow Belt
Joined: 22 May 2007
Posts: 35
Location: New Mexico
Styles: TAKUSANKAGE SHINOBIDO (Takusankage Ryu Ninpo, Hayai Ryu Kenjutsu, Koto Ryu Koppojutsu)
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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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
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G95champ
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Joined: 29 Mar 2002
Posts: 3067
Location: Gilbert WV, USA
Styles: Shotokan Karate (FSKA)
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Kata with your eyes closed.
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KamasandSais
Blue Belt
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
Posts: 307
Styles: karate tae kwon do and jujitsu
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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bushido_man96
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Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, and I research Medieval Combat
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Kata with your eyes closed. |
This exercise is very good for working on kinesthetic awareness. I should do it more often, as well.
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G95champ
Black Belt
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Location: Gilbert WV, USA
Styles: Shotokan Karate (FSKA)
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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bushido_man96
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Those sound like good ideas to break up the routine forms workouts. Great stuff!
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NewEnglands_KyoSa
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Location: New England
Styles: Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do , Chinese Kempo
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blind fold them for basic drills with their own belts. works like a charm and they love it for whatever reason!
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on the post.
