Uechi-Ryu Karate Road Trip 10.19.17
Post date: Oct 31, 2017 3:01:08 PM
The Meriden Martial Arts club visited Ed DeCosta's dojo on 10.19.17 and we practiced karate. Here are our notes.
Karate Dojo Notes
Overall
- Etiquette, say the kata confidently
- Slow down, trust form.
- Don't anticipate.
- Start and end with the most emphasis in katas.
Hojo undo
- Keep hands up don't drop them
- Keep blocks away from body
- Keep back foot and belt pointed toward opponent when striking
Sanchin
- Keep fingers even with shoulders
- Position arms a bit more away from body, not so close...a fist away from body
- Keep back foot straight.
- Keep legs separated a bit more
- At very beginning, lift arms inward to outward, curved, not straight up. Strike down and grab into a fist and then lift up and open hands after that.
- After first waueke block, go to horse stance for a second without moving right foot, then move left and do second waueke block
- Have toes pointed slightly apart when bowing.
- Keep lat down when striking. Don't throw shoulder out, keep lat taught, power comes from ground up, synchronize hips with that motion.
- Keep fingers out strike with thumbs for waueke blocks.
- Don't have hands and arms so close to chest, be looser up to, not so tight in upper body.
Kanshiwa bunkai
- Don't reach for club block, trust form and don't lean in. Drill this!
- Keep fist pointed toward opponent when chambered before elbow strike. Make point of elbow the striking point. Punch other shoulder, don't lean in, keep back straight.
- Eye contact. Give a cue before punches.
- Put punches on target, make them block.it.
Yakosuko
- Move side to side a bit when blocking.
- Chamber strike after striking.
- Stay loose and get powerful at the end.
- Crescent kicks, lift knee first and think about striking with toe, don't just throw leg out there. Work on hip mobility.
- In general when striking or defending, keep other hand up, even when not using it.
- DON'T ANTICIPATE. Try to block things last minute, not as they are being thrown.
Sei Ryu (Derek)
- Lift knee up same time as arm on same side goes into circle block…. Work on finding a focus point after that when landing on toe. Drill this, repetition.
- At the end, don't blend so much, keep as separate strikes with blocks
- Keep fingers to side for waueke block, strike with thumbs not fingers.
Kanshu (Enzo)
- Double harakans toward end is both offensive and defensive. More outward, less upward.
Kanshiwa (Dante)
- Keep shoken more compact, finger shouldn't jut out so much.
Sanseiryu (Bill)
- Slow down.
- Keep right arm by side for knee break, slide along ribs.
Seichin
- Pause in beginning.
Drill ideas
- Change up speeds in yako and react to strikes
- 50 club blocks don't reach at it otherwise do burpees or knuckle pushups