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Warm up and preliminary excercises. This allows you to increase blood flow and properly stretch your muscles, tendons and ligaments which will decrease the risk of injury and increase your performance. |
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Supplemental excercises. Muscular strenght and endurance as well as explosivness of technique are developed using training devices such as the machiwara, nigiri game and chiishi. |
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Formal excercise or form. They are a series of prearranged attacking and denfending techniques that help develop, among other things body shifting and balance. It is said that all the information of a style can be found in the kata. |
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| Kihon kata: |
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Basic form. In Gojo-ryu the fundamental kata is sanchin. |
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Open hand formal excercise. In Goju-ryu they are gekisai ichi, gekisai ni, saifa, shisochin, seisan, sanseiryu, seienchin, seipai, kururunfa and suparinpe. |
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| Fukyu kata: |
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Preliminary form covering basic techniques. |
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Close hand formal excercise. In Goju-ryu we end the training with tensho kata. |
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| Kumite: |
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Sparring. Crossing hands. |
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Pre-arranged sparring. |
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Continuous sparring. |
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One step sparring. |
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Two step sparring. |
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Surrounding or encircling sparring. Performing the fukyu kata with partners. |
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Stiking post excercise. Used to condition the striking surfaces of the body and develop power and accuracy of� technique. |
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Excercise using a weight (stone) attached to one end of a wooden handle. Strenghtens arms and shoulders. |
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Excercise using clay jars. Improves grip strength. |
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The Okinawan dialect pronunciation for hand. |
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Body shifting/displacement. |
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Hooking. A sensitivity excercise similar to sticking hands. |
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Entering technique. |
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| Shimeru |
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To close or tie, to squeeze. |
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| Chinkuchi |
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Skeletal and/or muscular alignment of the body and/or its parts, that results in a position of optimal strength. |
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