Training Journal #3

March 17th, 2007 at 19:51 · Filed Under Karate, Training Journal 

When I arrived at the community hall, there was no one in sight. Anyhow, I changed into my gi and started to warm up myself. After a while, there was still not a living shadow and I was all alone at the community hall.

This was a great opportunity for me to train. I had not been training for weeks. First, the illness before CNY. Second, the CNY celebration, off course. Third, my new project and I had to pay more attention and put in more effort. I realized my stamina had rotten so I practiced a few kata.

After practicing the kata, I did some kihon renshu. Then I started to explore the dropping technique. I first tried it with Jodan Uke and Chudan Uchi Otoshi. Then I tried it in Shomen Tzuki. I could feel the differences in the techniques with small increase of power. To harvest the benefits of dropping technique, one must train very hard so that the body and the technique can synchronize with the sudden dropping motion. This is common among some TKD but unfortunately many of them are unable to explain the concept behind their techniques. They said it was used to generate sine wave, a simple answer that I think most of them do not understand.

Some karate kata use dropping technique, for instance, Passai, Bassai-dai and all other variances. I think not many karate-ka realize this technique has been embedded into kata decades ago and even its existence. I do not know if my finding is true but it is certainly worth studying and exploring.

I had been reading about my work for the past two days and this morning. The training had lighten up my brain and I had an excellent work out with a big sweat!

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