what are some good ways to practice karate in your home?

Question

i want to get some practice in and get some fitness on days when i dont have class. any ideas of howi can practice athome? just a normal home, rugs, kitchen floor. any ideas?
what i'm doing now is kicking some shoe boxes off a tray table. mom thinks i'm goin gto damage the shoes i hvae inside the box. I ask you! LOL

i'm not trying anything new. i'm just doing stuff they've already shown us. i wont hurt myself, as a matter of fact, getting in practice in stuf fi've alredy been taught, i think helps me be more effective in class and reduce in class injury.

Answer 1

you can practice and perfect your kata, grab a chair and kick over it making sure you have good technique, you can also do alot of strengthening exercises like pushups and situps in between whatever kata your practicing

if you want too piss your parents off and use karate as an excuse just use them as a punching bag, work on your footwork as they move around the house doing stuff, move in jab jab hook, move out, obviouslt dont hit too hard if you like your parents

after the workout watch some videos of fights on you tube or at home ot get you manual and memorize some of the japanese words

Answer 2

The best advice, at least with kata, tends to be doing them painfully slow and repetitively. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the reasoning is that moving slow will focus on fine motor control, and the repetition builds muscle memory. When you do them faster later on, you'll be smoother and produce better movements. Practicing at home is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, if you want to advance at all (and I don't mean rank, but skill), you have to practice yourself and do some sort of training on your own... Two nights a week in class is not enough. On the other hand, you don't have someone skilled to correct your technique, so you may only be developing bad habits. Back when my Shidoshi (In the bujinkan, this is a licensed instructor) was in town, I'd go home from training and over the days between, take the technique I'd had the most trouble with and perform it slowly anywhere from fifty to one hundred times. Then I'd go back to class the next week and practice it in front of him. If the general attitude of disdain felt at all genuine, I'd messed up something about it and he'd correct me. If he just groaned and shook his head but didn't say anything to correct it, I knew I was doing okay. Sadly, if he ever told me I was doing good, I was almost certain I had it totally wrong :D

Answer 3

If you have plenty of room with a full length mirror that is good.A garage where you can put up a kick and punch bag is real good.A partner is even better.You can always stretch almost anywhere so that is no problem.You must be creative and use what you have available.My Sensei hitched hiked 150 plus miles 3 times a week to make his classes in the 70's if he can do that then we know anything is possible if we put our brains to work.

Answer 4

Alot of instructors will have you practice the stuff that was taught in class. But don't go over board. Do some light exercises. And keep up the work the instructor has taught you. He or she may not want you to do to much outside of class. But in the mean time practice what you have been taught.

Answer 5

Use a mirror to see where your punches and kicks are landing.If they are not right,you will know it right on the spot.
Get a speed bag to practice punches on,avoid hitting any solid bags.If you do use a solid bag,be careful.I nearly broke my hand on one in Karate.
The speed bag can be kicked as well.It should be very good to practice on because it will be moving.
Between that and the mirror,you will learn a lot of good things.

Answer 6

I have a nice sized back yard that I can practice in. Sometimes if I'm working in my office I will get up and practice the Ten No kata since it requires only enough space to take on step forward and one step back.

Answer 7

since u r into it u shud kno what "sunchin" is.. i hope that is how u spell it.. do all ur katas n basic kumites in sunchin.. tighten every muscle involved in every move.

in first step move ffd while breathing in

in 2nd step strike while u release air in sunchin

the basic adv ull get is ull not only revise ur katas n kumites but ull also wormup..

i practice this every day but since normally a person finishes a normal kata in a period of seconds ( i take like 35-40 sec to finish my first kata - the first basic one-) this new way will take more time to finish, will make u feel more agile n tired

so gud luck ..

Answer 8

Try watching "The Karate Kid" starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. Lotsa training tips in that movie like "wax on wax off", paint the fence" etc. : P

Answer 9

With out a master is not good to practice at home, because it may ham your muscle and bone in long term, the best way is to learn karate for some months, then you may practice at home.