How Tough are You?
Fun StuffWell there are a lot of ways to find out. You could visit your local biker bar and kick over a few Harley’s. Or, you could go patrol the ghetto streets of Detroit, DC or Baltimore. Or, you could find a group of hostile 5 year olds and see how many you could take…that’s what Read More
Kyokushin Katas
History . Styles . Technique . Training notesKata (forms) Kata is the synergy or technique and skill. Kata is a form of ritualized training in which patterned or memorized movements are done in order to practice a form of virtualized combat. Several kata are also done in “ura” denoted by the ura at the end of the Kata name. Ura indicates a Read More
Put a little Jump in it…
Fitness . Technique . Training notesJust put a little Jump Rope in your workout today…Stamina, Strength and Jump Strength! Read More
The 3 K’s of Kyokushin
Styles . Technique . Training notesI train in and teach Kyokushin Karate. One of the things that I love about my style is the simplicity of it all. Yes you read correctly. At its core Kyokushin training consists of three main elements: (1) technique, (2) forms, and (3) sparring. These are sometimes referred to as the three “K’s” after the Read More
The Games are back!
Competition . For Kids . Fun StuffAll work and no play makes for a boring individual, so that saying goes. Well far be it for us to stand in the way of fun here at KarateTraining.org! Since our site rebuild our games section has been offline and our patrons have let us know, emails, phone calls, it was really overwhelming. So Read More
Life is Fragile
A Zen Thing . Events & Holidays . HistoryGiven that this is the anniversary of the Sept. 11th attack, I thought this image would be appropriate. This is a sticker I found from when I was a kid, a long time ago. But it reminds me of what we any of us that were old enough probably though on 9/11, life is fragile. Read More
Staying Safe
Fun StuffNo longer do I need to stay awake all night to keep my family safe from Ninjas. That’s right, no more peaking out the windows, or sliding down the hall! But perhaps I should have set the time a little earlier, like around 11PM. Read More
Dangerous Places
Articles of Interest . Self-DefenseAustralian Shooter Magazine had an interesting letter that I came across and I thought I would share it, I quote: “If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate Read More
Cyber Sparring
Site_NewsWell it has been an interesting week… Last week a Russian hacker was able to find some vulnerable code on our site and insert some malware. I am not proud of this fact but honesty is the best policy. Regardless I spent a good portion of the past week trying to isolate and extract the Read More
Happy Thoughts
A Zen Thing . Awareness . Quotes . State of MindTo think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline – training – is about. James Clavell, in his novel “Shogun” I read Read More
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