HOME TRAINING VIDEOS

Summer Sessions 5 - Combos

Today's session running through our Toatakai Combos. We have four combinations in our syllabus, each with eight moves. The combos are designed to contain all the footwork, punches and kicks that we use in Kumite. We'll run through each combo slowly twice to focus on getting it correct, and then twice fast. Stick around to the very end after the outro for some extra training!

Summer Sessions 4 - Kicks

Follow along with this series of at home Toatakai training session over the 25/26 summer. 

Todays focus on developing our kicks. We'll start of with a mobility warm up, run through some exercises to build our hip strength, and then run through some kicking drills.

Summer Sessions 3 - Kata

Today we are running through Gekisai Dai Ichi, Gekisai Dai Ni, Saifa and Seiyunchin. We'll run through each Kata slowly first, focusing on getting the pattern correct and learning the bunkai. Bunkai refers to the application of the Kata, the purpose for each move. At Toatakai, this is a very important concept. Kata is not a performance, it is a set of self-defense moves that we can practice alone. Check out all the bunkai videos of our Kata through the members area of the website in the Kata section. 

"Without Bunkai, Kata is empty"

Summer Sessions 2 - Jumps

Follow along with this series of at home Toatakai training session over the 25/26 summer. 

Todays focus is on building power through jumps. You'll want to grab a bench/footstool/chair or something similar to jump off and over. We'll run through a bunch of general jumping drills, followed by some more specific Karate jumps, then end of with some drop jumps to build that plyometric explosiveness.

Summer Sessions 1 - Kumite

Follow along with this series of at home Toatakai training session over the 25/26 summer. 

Todays focus is on Kumite, we're running through our Kime (fighting stance), footwork, punching drills for reach, and finally a few kicking drills. You'll need a soft ball to kick, and if possible a belt to hang or anything else to use as a kicking target. 

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!