Most of the people practice Karate on “gut feeling”. As they don’t give importance to frequency, intensity and training volume, they never reach their potential and always remain average. Training may give you stress but it leads you to improvement. When we call bad stress as distress, healthy stress is called eustress and it is…
Two Fitness Tips For Successful Sparring Sparring exists as an artistic expression in the style of martial art. To excel in this hand-to-hand combat technique, martial artists spend so many hours in drilling, running, jumping rope, hitting pads and hitting the bag. Sparring helps a competitor to create a relationship with the opponent. Having a…
The benefits for the body Basically, Karate defends you. It teaches to protect one’s own self and help others if needed. It is a wholesome workout for the total body. Training under a good sensei works its magic from the head to the toes. Every muscle is stretched, toned and fine-tuned. Regular training helps to…
The number of distractions students have these days are million. Therefore, the need to focus on and enhance competitive exam concentration has increased. In this brief article, we explore some of the tricks for the same. Every time you walk from your desk to the bathroom or your room to the kitchen, count your steps….
How do you enhance competitive exam concentration? This is one questions that every teacher, mentor, and scion of education in Chennai is asked again and again. The reason for it is apparent. Competitive exams like the CSE are a tough nut to crack. On top of it their syllabus vast. Combined, clearing the IAS exam…
The Knifehand Strike More than anything, we all want to witness a sensei or karateka break a wooden board or slash his fist into stacked tiles or bricks. Even children who are capable of this feat inspire awe. The common audience hushes itself into silence as trainees take stance before the formidable block of wood….
The Big C: A Disease That Requires Unique Solutions Anyone who has fought Cancer or known a person who survived it is aware that the disease takes its toll. If caught at a late stage, it is rarely curable, and even when the body can submit it to defeat, it leaves its mark. It is…
Karate-do –An introduction The self- defence technique that originated from Okinawa is what is widely now know as Karate –do or simply Karate. A martial artist well versed in Karate is called a Karateka. Split into two, the word “kara” means empty and “te” means hand and “do’ means way. The word in itself is…
