Here at Club "NAHA" Karate-Do, our goal is to inspire and enable our students through karate training to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring individuals. Club "NAHA" Karate-Do will help strengthen their spirit, mind, and body, by providing a positive karate dojo for kids by focusing on caring, confidence, honesty, leadership, respect, and responsibility.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Zenkutsu Dachi
Zenkutsu-dachi (Front-stance): If you go from a natural position (feet resting one shoulder width apart, both feet pointing forward) and take your left foot forward to roughly two shoulder width apart, your feet should be at the correct position for front stance. From here, bend this front leg, so if you had a tape measure you could have a straight line from your knee to your foot. Then straighten your rear leg. Your weight should be roughly 60:40 with 60% on the front leg. Your back should be straight and your buttocks should not stick out like a duck. This is a very basic description of a typical front stance. These measurements will not always work, these are simply just very general rules
Zenkutsu-dachi movement: During a step forward, your rear leg does not just move forward, but instead follows a zigzag path along the floor. There are several reasons for this, which will become clear when you train in your dojo. Begin one zenkutsu-dachi, which is one shoulder width apart. Then push or pull the rear leg inward to meet the front leg. Then Push off what was your front leg to take the other foot forward. Therefore your foot moves inward then outward. Always be sure to keep your back straight, and not to bend or lean .
Club "NAHA" Karate-Do is the name of the karate dojo at the Alfond Youth Center. Club "NAHA" Karate-Do is a positive karate school in which the students learn the art of karate-do to help them develop the skills necessary to become great martial artist and productive, caring, honest, responsible citizens.
Shudokan
Shudokan Karate is the predominant style taught at Club "NAHA" Karate-Do. Shudokan (The Hall for the Study of the Way) is the Okinawan martial that emphasizes strong traditional stances and explosive hand techniques. Shudokan was created and refined by Hanshi Toyama Kanken who learned his karate from many of the same Okinawan masters as the famous Gichin Funikoshi. Hanshi Toyama refined his karate for many years and merged many of the straight-line power techniques characterized by Shotokan, with softer (as in striking with speed and accuracy vs. striking anywhere with overwhelming power), circular, and more angular techniques imported from Okinawan and Chinese fighting systems. This blend of “Hard/Soft” techniques makes for a sophisticated and effective fighting system.
Renshi Craig is a Godan (5th degree black belt) in the art of Club "NAHA" Karate-Do. He began studying Karate in 1992, at the Waterville Area Boys and Girls Club in Waterville, Maine. He has studied the art of karate under Shihan Ken Walsh and under Renshi Javier Diaz, Renshi Craig teaches the karate classes at the Club "NAHA" Karate-Do dojo out of the Alfond Youth Center, in Waterville, Maine. For more information about Club "NAHA" Karate-Do contact Renshi Craig Sargent at csargent@alfondyouthcenter.org
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