Karate is a form of unarmed combat in which kicks, punches, and body slams are practiced within the confines of certain rules. The founder of karate combined the martial arts introduced to Japan with the fighting arts of 500 years ago to create his own style, which is the prototype of karate we see today.

There are many different schools of karate, but the four main schools that exist are Goken-Ryu, Matsutokan-Ryu, Itto-Ryu, and Wado-Ryu. Flash karate consists of kata and kata, kata is a competitive confrontation between two athletes within the limits of certain rules, kata is the equivalent of kata in martial arts and is a set performance under a fixed stance, there is 102 kata allowed in the rules.

What are the benefits of practicing karate?

Fitness: The fitness benefits of karate are self-explanatory. The various kicks, upward and downward movements of the arms, and stretches in the karate moves will strengthen the muscles and strength of young children, and improve the elasticity of tendons, ligaments, and muscles, thus enhancing their physical strength and flexibility.

Intellectual stimulation: Karate gives the brain a lot of good stimulation. The practice process is not just a contraction of skeletal muscles, but a combination of right brain functions such as spatial perception, experience, and type recognition, and is therefore very conducive to the development of right brain functions such as spatial transformation and form perception in young children, improving image thinking and creativity.

Nurture the mind: Karate requires clear orientation by making changes of direction, thus developing children's spatial perception; in addition, children have to take the initiative to find ways to overcome difficulties, which exercises the will, develops bravery, and learns the correct attitude towards people, things and objects.

Rituals: Karate promotes the martial spirit of "rituals begin and end with rituals", and emphasizes the importance of learning rituals before learning the art and morals before learning martial arts. Through mutual respect between teachers and children, salutations during activities, and courtesy between children, children understand the meaning of "courtesy" and know how to behave.

Training methods for karate skills

Cut ordinary newspaper into 16 or large 32 pages, not too large. The two corners are hung up by a rope, suspended in the air at the same height as the chest, and struck with a fist or a hand knife, the fist is successful when the paper breaks and the palm breaks. After success, change to thinner paper, until the use of very thin copy paper, cotton paper, and so on can also achieve the above effect.

At first, you can fix both sides of the board, and then you can let the board hang in the air after the force is smooth, so as to test your own force.

Floating the board in the water, it is difficult to find the force point of the board, if you use brute force will only splash, so if you want to interrupt the board floating in the water and need a very strong explosive force (pinch strength).

The main purpose of this training is to strengthen the cohesiveness and penetration of the force.

Sandbags can enhance the strength of the muscles of the palm orthopedic, and increase the killing power, practice sandbags at the beginning of the bag can be put in the green beans and other grains, and then slowly over to iron sand.