- BREATH CONTROL
FOR POWER CONCENTRATION
The human body has for more power potential than is normally put to
use and for that reason most people are not even aware of that power
reserve. There is hardly ever any reason for using all of the possible
strength and power of course is the development of skill, speed, and
use of good techniques. Even so, you will feel more confident if you
realize your power potential and if you train to use it to the best
advantage. Breath controls has the function of concentrating and utilizing
power to the greatest degree possible.
"As the brain is the seat of mental power the abdominal area
is the seat of physical power" Without conscious planning, you
automatically tighten your abdomen for a surge of power when you are
doing heavy lifting or pushing, the procedure is this you take a breath,
tighten your abdomen, and exhale sharply at the instant of critical
action. Sometimes this is done with a silent exhalation but more often
it is done with a sound or grunt. This is unconscious breath control
and you can put the same principle to work for you consciously by
practicing your hand and foot blows with breath control.
- KARATE TRAINING
AND CONDITIONING
Too much is now known about psychology to dispute the statement that
your attitude during Karate training will determine how well you can
learn it. Teh oriental considers Karate a way of life. We have modified
this attitude to confirm with Western thinking, but you must pay strict
attention by the following if you are to make good progress in your
training; frame of mind, exercise, diet, self - control.
- FRAME OF MIND
Be alert for your practice sessions. Do not begin a practice session
when you are over tired of distracted. Start each practice session
in a confident mood.
They can conquer who believe they can. Learning Karate is a matter
of self - discipline and work. Karate can be learned by anyone who
is determined. Karate was originated for the purpose of self - defence
and doing good. Enter into your training with the idea of using it
for a good purpose and you will dissipate accomplish more since self
discipline is so important in learning Karate you can increase your
self - discipline by controlling your self in your relations with
other people. You will self - control unless you maintain a falm and
intelligent attitude toward others. Do not waste your energies by
allowing yourself to be annoyed by petty situations. Avoid any aggressive
tendencies. Aggressiveness weakness your self - control you will have
no need for aggressiveness when you have confidence in your ability
to take care of yourself in any situation.
- BENEFITS OF
TRAINING
| DISCIPLINE
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Martial
Arts is structured around respect and courtesy with a special
emphasis on following simple instructions. This enables the
student to attain self - discipline. |
| CONFIDENCE |
Karate
provides a student with control over his or her ability to stand
up to peer pressure and other intimidating situations building
confidence and self - esteem. |
| COORDINATON |
The
movements and techniques used in the practice of Martial Arts
develop bettercoordination, increased flexibility and strength. |
| CONCENTRATION |
Training
enhances the ability to focus on goals and achieve them. |
| SELF
- DEFENCE |
Students
of the Martial Arts learn to recognize dangerous situations
and avoid conflicts. |
| RELAXATION |
The
practice of Karate is a great way to burn excess energy and
relieve stress. |
- BALANCE AND
CORRECT FORM
Karate is art that requires your best possible form and balance. In
order to get the most out of your technique, you must do it in perfect
form, being aware of the fine points that make the technique effective,
your must be able to do a one legged stand so that you can deliver
a kicking technique or block attacks to your legs. For effective kicks
and stable stances, you need a foot sense of balance.
- SAFETY AND
CONTROL
Master and student must have the same approach, if training accidents
are to be avoided. The elements which insure safety in training are
these; Safety must be considered a desirable aspect of training. The
students must have confidence in the efficiency of the techniques.
There must be mutual respect between masters and students and among
the students.
In the old fashioned method of training (Still used by many teachers),
safety was not an important consideration. Student who were hurt of
injured in training were expected to bear there injurties in brave,
silence and such behaviour made them seem more 'worthy' of the honor
of being taught unarmed fighting. When actual hand to hand combat
was the finishing school for these students such an attitude was reasonable.
In our time, students who benefit most from the modern type of training
are those who are least likety to be attracted to the 'learn by suffering'
school of thought. Moreover, students are not spending their entire
lives in this practice (as did the feudal warriors) and they cannot
afford to get hurt, they have work, school, college and family obligations
which are at least as important as important element of training,
safety rules will be taught and applied.
The purpose
of this training is not to prove that they work, but to learn them.
'To learn them you do not have to hurt your training partners any
more than you have to shoot people to prove a gun can kill'.
There is enough part of the efficiency of Karate techniques to ask
you to have confidence in them rough or violent training is not necessary
for good learning.
The Masters,
Teachers, Senior Instructors, or Instructors Practice Partners who
has your safety in mind is your best insurance against training accidnets.
Mutual respect
and mutual concern should be encouraged.
- PRACTICE FIGHTING
Practice Fighting is your best chance to put the basic elements you
have learned into real action. Always bear two things in mind; you
must approach practice fighting with the true martial arts affitude
of respecting what your opponent can do, and you must always strive
to put what you know to best use.
Practice Fighting demands that you bring together all that you have
learned in daily training and that you crystallise your constant efforts
to perfect your speed, strength, balance and timing.
- KATA
Kata are a prredetermined series of blocking, evading and countering
techniques against single or multiple attackers, who may be armed
or unarmed. By performing a Kata the Karate Kas should imagine himself
to be surrounded by opponents and be prepared to be execute defensive
and offensive techniques in any direction that is the mental attitude
to practice theKata should be the same as for Kumite (Sparring) All
though the physical practice of the various Kata is in itself an excellent
physical exercise promoting suppleness, flexibility and improved muscle
tone and that proper practice demands that the martial artist develop
(Zanshian) an alert, concentrated awareness of the totality of the
situation with an untroubled 'unstopping' mind allowing complete freedom
for appropriate and effective action.
- THE BASIC
PRINCIPLES
In Karate, you learn how to punch (zuki), strike(uchi), kick(Geri),
and block(Uke), Punching, striking, and kicking are offensice techniques,
blocking on the other hand, is a defensive technique. These skills
are the building blocks for the advances techniques.You can easily
learn the basic techniques in just a few months, but perfecting them
takees a lifetime of daily practice. That's why it's so important
to learn how to do them correctly from the start.
- ABILITY TO
CONCENTRATE POWER
In order to put the greatest power into a Karate movement you need
to be able to concentrate strength from your entire body. You don't
just punch with your arm or kick with your leg. The power must come
from the centre of your body and them travel through your arm of leg
into your hand or foot.
Concentration of power is called kime in Japanese, which means "focus"in
English. To focus your technique, you need constant practice and training
in the basic skills. You also need to learn how to relax your muscles
at the start of a movement and tense them only just short of contact.
- KARATE WEAPONS
Since Karate is literally what the name means fighting with empty
hands, it demands that we transform the whole human body into a weapon
and use it effectively. To reach the sttage where it is possible to
use all parts of the body, down to one single finger as a powerful
weapon, we must know the proper way to handle our bodies. Since olden
times, it has been said that Karate grip requires three years to learn,
the sttanding method another three years. and the thrusting method
still another three years. In other words making a powerful weapons
of the body is the most important of all Karate basics. Completely
and correctly mastering this basics requires intensive training.
An old Japanese proverb used to show the deepest meaning of the Japanese
military art of fencing (Kendo) says,"If the sword is true, the
heart is true and if the heart is true, the sword is true" In
the sense that the heart of the man who holds the sword is manifest
in the sword itself, this maxim applies to Karate where the weapon
that replaces the (Kendo) sword is the human body. For this reason
Karate Kas must take proper and good care of his body.
I emphasise the care and training of the body to all beginning students
because the body as a weapon is so vital to Karate. All students must
learn how to care for their bodies and must understand how to make
of their bodies accurate and powerful Karate weapons.
You must alwas remember the logical training of entire body and correct
coordination of all the body parts are essential to the development
of effective Karate weapons.
- KARATE KAS
Karate is now taught for self - defence in Karate Schools (dojos)
and police academies, and on army bases, Many colleges and universities
teach it for credit in physical education. You can learn many different
styles of Karate. And you can do it whether you are male or female
no matter how young or old you are.
When you practise Karate, you don't actually strike or kick your opponent.
If you hit each other, you could seriously injure each other. Instead
you control your movements so that you stop just short of making conttact.
The point of Karate is to show that you could break through your opponents
defence and hit him or her if you had to. People who practise Karate
are called Karatekas. Since Karate is an art concerned with character
as well as self - defence, Karatekas are expected to show good sportsmanship
and respectt for their opppnents.
- MENTAL ATTITUDE
Mental attitude is important in all of the Karate Training, You begin
each exercise without exception, by assuming a perfectly positive
attitude. You are able to do that which you are about to practice.
Without this attitude you will accomplish only a fraction of your
potential. A conscious strong thought about every action must precede
the phyiscal attempt to do it. It is a mental review so to speak,,
which implants the idea of the action to help your body do its work.
Mind and body must work together and that is developed with concentration
in Karate training.
- KARATE
Self Deffence: A man trained in the art of Karatte can, when necessary,
take on two of more opponents at once, and incapacitate an enemy of
superior height and weight without weapons, and with only the major
use of sisst open hand, fingertips, Knee, elbow, foot and head.
Karate can also be described as a martial art, or fighting method,
involving a variety of techniques, including blocks, strikes, evasions,
throws, adnn joint manipulations. Karate practice is divided into
three aspects: kihon (basics), kate (forms), adn kumite(sparring).
The word karate is a combination of two Japanese characters: kara,
meaning empty, and te, meaning hand; thus, karate means "empty
hand". Adding the suffix" - do" (pronounced "doe"),
meaning "way, " i.e., karate - do, implies karate as a total
way of life that goes well beyond the self - defense applications.
In traditional karate - do, we always keep in mind that the true opponent
is oneself.
- BLOCKING METHODS
Even if you have excellent punching, striking and kicking techniques,
they will be useless unless you also know how
to block your opponent's attacks. Blocking techniques are ways of
moving your body to stop your opponent's attack that leave you in
a good position for delivering a counter attack that is, a punch,
stike or kick of your own.
- KICKING TECHNIQUES
Many people are attrated to Karate because of the kicking techniques.
The kicks are beautiful and impressive to watch, and they have more
power than attacks with the hands. The only drawback is that kicking
techniques are very difficult to master. It takes a lot of practice
before you can use them effectively.
To be able to deliver a good kick, you need correct form and good
sense of balance, You need to begin your kick from a chamber position,
which means bringing your foot to your knee before kicking. Then you
need to fonish your kick in that same chamber position. The better
your chamber, the better and more effective your kick will be.
- RHYTHM AND
TIMING
Rhythm is the ability to create the correct tempo for a Karate movement.
When your rhythm is just right, you apply strength at the correct
moments.
Control the speed from one technique to the next, make smooth transitions
between movements. Timing is very important if your timing is off,
your technique will not work. When your timing is right, you start
your defence in a way that will make your technique effective if you
are an expert, you'll be able to know by the way your opponent is
standing or beginning a movement, the best position for starting a
correctly timed defence. Return to a stable position after performing
your technique, stay relaxed and alert with your body ready to launch
your next movement.
- THE ROLE OF
MUSCLES
Many people believe that Karate requires no muscular strength, but
they are mistaken. Even if you have focus (Kime), Soeed, timing and
rhythm, your techniques will not be strong if your muscles are weak
you don't need to build muscles (as in weight training) but you should
tone and strengthen them by doing Karate exercises and by constantly
repeating the basic techniques.
- PHYSICAL FITNESS
Through correct instructons and exercise Karate builds up mans innate
strength to such heights that even boards tiles etc. can be split
with the bare hands & legs.
- SPORTS KARATE
As a competitve game which develops both physical and mental skills,
Karate as a sport, is now taught all over the world.
- PRACTICE BREAKING
When you try the speed and strength your daily training has given
you in breaking glass, boards, tiles, bricks of rooftiles, you are
doing more than just measuring your own ability, you are also giving
yourself a chance to reflect on the effects your training has had
own both on your mind and body. When you see yourself that you can
break this objects, you know that your body id possessed of the speed
and strength you were striving for. "A Karate that ignores breaking
practise is no more, useful than a fruit tee that bears no fruit."
The breaking techniques permit a spiritually unifies and trained man
to exhibit feats of marvellous strength that the ordinary man can
not imagine.
- Physical Fitness
It is said that
good habits make a good product. Let some of the good thoughts lead
to forming of good habits and a good way of life and may these help
you find your share of joy and happiness.
Man's business
is to know for the sake of living, not to live for the sake of knowing.
Seek and thou shall find - you have to give your dreams a concrete
shape - so let this be a beginning!!
"Whenever
a noble deed is wrought,
Whenever is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise."
THOUGHT
POWER FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING!
"You become
what you think!"
Quoting from
the Bible, "As a man thinketh … so is he."
From Buddha, "All that we are is the result of what we have
thought."
And from William James, "Belief (thought) creates the actual
fact."
"WE BECOME
WHAT WE THINK'
Just as the
kind of food we eat builds our bodies, so the thoughts we think
build our characters - what we really are or subsequently will become.
So what should
we think about?
Surely we should
think more and better thoughts.
Fortune is stagnant
for those who do not move.
Fortune moves for those, who get up and move.
Fortune sleeps for those who sleep.
Fortune smiles more and more for those who
Continue moving forward day by day.
"Real generosity
towards the future lies in giving all to the present."
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Nothing is achieved before it is thoroughly attempted.
A wise man will
make more opportunities, than he finds,
If you don't
do it … You will never know what would have happened, if you
had done it.
No great man
ever complains of want of opportunity.
Purity, patience and perseverance are three essentials to success.
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