Home Training Videos
Belt Training
Agiility, movement, targetting, stetching and plenty more Karate drills you can do it home, all with just a belt! If you dont have a Karate belt, a normal belt, extension lead, tie or rope are just some alternatives!
Isolation Training
For all those Isolating at home, in this session we’re working with an inflatable bag to do a variety of timing and distance drills with our techniques.
You can pick up one of these bags online to use at home, I've purchased this one from Kmart - https://www.kmart.co.nz/.../inflatable-boxing.../3146306
Yoga Exercises for Karate
15 Minute Yoga for Karate session 🧘♂️🥋🧘♀️
Yoga is great for Karate, helping to develop flexibilty, balance and strength, especially throughout the hips for our kicking.
Letter-Based Training Session
A letter based at home training session that anyone can do 🔠👊
🏋️♀️ 10 of each exercise, except for G, K, Q, R - just do these once for the set. Make sure to split exercises between both arms/legs.
🏋️♂️ Level 1 - Spell your full name (ie BARNEY JACK GILL)
🏋️♂️ Level 2 - Full street name (HELEN JUNE AVENUE)
🏋️♂️ Level 3 - City you were born in and your age in letters (LOWER HUTT, TWENTYISH)
🏋️♂️ Level 4 - Name of your School and Teacher (PARAPARAUMU COLLEGE, SMITH)
🏋️♂️ Level 5 - Title of the last book you read and the author's last name (GREEN EGGS AND HAM, SEUSS)
🏋️♀️ Pause the video at the end to keep the letters on screen, and challenge yourself to get through as many levels as possible!
Agility Ball Exercises for Karate
Today we're making and then doing some drills with an agility ball. These balls are great for training eye-hand coordiation, reaction and agility, all really important componants for Karate! You can pick one up really cheap from a sports store or Warehouae/K-Mart. Otherwise, grab a tennis/bounce ball, some scissors and tape, and we'll make our own!
Belt-Based Training Session
Watch along and complete todays training, with sets and reps depending on your grade. There's 6 components, pause at the end of each one to keep the information on screen, then complete the set.
Lockdown Trainings
During the August/September Lockdown, we released a range of home training sessions online. For all these trainings, you just need a bit of space and a screen to follow along from.
Check the entire series out here:
Cone Drills
A collection of Cone Drills to improve footwork, agility and coordination. Grab about 10 cones, spaced between ¾ of a metre to a meter. if you don't have cones, water bottles, shoes or anything else around the house will do!
Ladder Drills
Ladder drills are great to improve footwork, agility and coordination. These are really important for Kumite, being able to move well on the mat and control where we put our feet. This training starts of with some simple drills, then moves on to more difficult Kumite based drills from kime and with kicks.
You can pick up ladders cheap from K-mart, or make your own at home using shoes/bottles/gloves/rope and the rungs.
Sky Next Lockdown Training
During NZ’s Level 4 lockdown, Sky Sport approached some Karate Players to help create some at home trianing videos. You can find a lot more NZ athletes from different sports doing home training drill by searching ‘Sky Sport Home Advantage’ through Youtube!
In this session, we’re creating something to use as a bag at home for targetting, punching and kicking drills.
Karate Core Workout
This is another video from our days in lockdown, and is a 10 minute Core blast. We run through a bunch of different exercies to help strengthen the core, changing every 30 seconds.
Jumps
Time to burn the legs out with some general plyometric exercises, followed by some Kumite specific jumps. Jumping exercises are a great way for us to build power for rapid movement.
Look to perform sets of 8 for each exercise, and make sure to have enough rest between sets when jumping, otherwise we start to train endrurance opposed to power.
Kicks
Open up the hips and strengthen your glutes with the kicking exercises. Grab a chair, some balloons and string to help you out with these ones.
Effective kicking in Karate comes down to three main things - 1) Flexibility, primarily in the groin and hamstrings, 2) Glute Strength, to allow control of different kicks, delivered at speed, and 3) Technique, ensuring kicks are thrown efficiently as possible.
These exercises are mainly to develop flexibility and strength, however during any kicking exercise we can always focus on good technique!