Karate is indeed primarily a striking art, but the kata also contain basic throws. Shoshine Nagamine, the founder of Matsubayashi-ryu […]

This video explains how to practice the second bunkai application for Fukyugata Ich as a solo pad drill. Such drills […]

Solo training is an important part of the martial artist’s overall training matrix. During the Covid-19 pandemic, dojos have closed […]

Being able to throw an enemy is an important karate skill set. Indeed, karate is primarily a striking art, but […]

All martial artists should be fit to fight, regardless of the martial arts context for which you train (practical self-defense, […]

An excellent solo-training activity is to alternate between strength training and kihon (kicks and hand strikes) on the heavy bag. […]

Every traditional karate system has some form of “kihon” training, or practice of basic techniques. These kihon are the building […]

Bunkai drills should be practiced with training partners; however, there are situations when we may need to solo train our […]

In one sense, kata are highly stylized shadow boxing drills in which several combative principles and corresponding techniques illustrating the […]

Ideally, we should be working our kata bunkai/application drills with partners, so that we can pressure test our applications with […]