After watching The Karate Kid for the six millionth time, I thought that it would be fun to practice sweeps.  This is a technique that I haven’t spent a lot of time working on over the years because I have never been good at it.  I never like to work …
It has taken me a long time to realize something has been missing from my katas. It’s not that I haven’t learned the correct moves or that I am doing the moves wrong, instead, I have been doing the movements in the kata without purpose. Does that kata look different? …
Recently, someone on the Google+ Shotokan Karate Community asked “How effective is Shotokan in real street defense?”. I felt that it would be better to answer that question here so that I could share it my readers on this blog and also share it with my fellow Karate students on …