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Joint Lock Practicality

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While many joint locking techniques (kansetsu-waza) exist within karate, there are still karateka who are unaware of them and, frequently, people look at the joint locks of karate from the perspective of other arts. We know that such techniques exist within karate, not only because of karateka who kept them in their curricula into modern times, such as Uehara Seikichi […]

Multiple Attacker and Bodyguard Drills

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Last night in class we worked a lot of multiple attacker drills and a bodyguard drill, and I thought they were all very fun and useful.  Before we started those drills, though, we wore ourselves out with jogging, calisthenics, bagwork and kicking pads (normally we don’t do running or calisthenics in the adult class so between that and being out […]