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European Senior Championship - Tenerife 2012

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GRAND PRIX SLOVAKIA 2012

GRAND PRIX SLOVAKIA 2012

Our team members entered 32.GRAND PRIX SLOVAKIA, held in Bratislava, on 15th of April. This tournament is part of Central European Karate League by courtesy and sponsorship of Slovak Karate Union. Total of 12 countries listed on this tournament among that Croatian National Karate Federation attended this event with S...

KARATE TECHNIQUES

 Modern karate is usually divided into three parts:

* Kihon

* Kate

* Kumite (fighting)

Kihon means basic techniques and fundamentals, but perhaps best as a basis karatea.Ovo combines all the basic techniques of karate such as arm strokes, kicking, stances, blocks, etc. However, this is just the general appearance of karate. Kihon is the only thing a beginner learns and what an outsider sees, but goes to the heart of what is really the basic techniques are used. Balance, speed, strength, timing, concentration and many other things are true kihon, which produced an endless repetition of techniques. Therefore, the kihon is thought to be the foundation of karate.

Kumite (sparring) is literally translated from Japanese means "meeting of hands" and has many forms. Kumite is the part of karate where the offensive and defensive techniques are implemented in practice. This is a fight with the enemy using lessons blows and blocks, attitudes and trends. Opponents are trying to give each other fast, accurate and controlled strokes using the hands and feet (hand and foot) in certain parts of the body, while rejecting or avoiding such attacks, as the intent to incapacitate an opponent for further action. Specific attitude and a special way of movement contribute to the efficiency of attack and defense. In the sports battle ground opponents are trying to collect as many points to beat the opponent.

Kata translates to "form", also "a struggle with an imaginary opponent." This is a set of predetermined movements which consists of defensive and offensive techniques. This set of moves has its exact form and order in which the techniques are performed. Self-defense karate discipline always precedes an attack defense, this is followed by a counterattack.

Kate are intended as a set of movements that illustrate the various types of attack and defense under ideal circumstances. It is important to remember that they are developed when there was no literacy in Okinawa or China, so physical routines were the logical method for storing this type of information.

There are about a hundred floors in various styles of karate, each with some specific variations.

BASIC KARATE TECHNIQUES

Techniques to be covered in a karate school, the basis on which to build more complex elements in the other phases of training. These are:

a) Basic attitudes

* Ready posture - position with feet parallel (heiko dachi);

* Stance with your feet (heisoku dachi);

* Front position (Zenkutsu dachi);

* Last position (kokutsu dachi);

* Riding position (kiba dachi)

b) Blocks

* Low Block (Gedan bar)

* High block (age uke)

* Middle outer block (soto uke)

* Middle inner block (ude uke)

* Middle inner edge of the open hand block (soto uke)

c) Shooting hand

* Direct punch (Seiken tsuki shoku);

* A direct punch in advance with the appropriate step foot (oi tsuki);

* Direct kick back fist (gjakova tsuki)

d) kicking

* Kick cheekbone foot forward "flick" of the knee (mae geri Kumite);

* Kick cheekbone foot forward "from the hip" (mae geri Kekomi);

* Circular kick (mawashi geri);

* Side kick (yoko geri)

PUPILS 'KATE

The karate school deals with students kata (Heian-kata), which are composed of basic, previously learned elements assembled into a single unit. "Heian" a phrase which signifies all the student Kate.

COMBINATION TECHNIQUE

Combinations of techniques are the way to practice that technique (2 or more) together in one unit. This mode can be achieved: better performance and understanding the techniques, their training, improving coordination of movement, preparing related techniques for later use in sparring and kata.

ARRANGED SPARRING

The first option to apply the basic techniques in combat sports is the basic sparring (kumite gohon). This is a sparring practice previously mentioned offensive and defensive karate techniques that are agreed in advance.

BASIC CONCEPTS

WORD MEANING

Bunkai application of techniques in kata

Dachi stance, posture

Dan master craftsman

Dojo gym

Embusen line of movement when performing kata

Geri Waza Foot technique

Gi kimono

Hajime! go!

Karate empty hand

Karate karate

Kata forms (performing karate techniques in a given row), the fight with an imaginary opponent

Articulated a strong Kiai (spirit) interjection, as the result of contraction of abdominal muscles

Kihon basic karate techniques

Kime exhale with contraction of abdominal muscles

Fight Kumite (sparring)

Kyu learning degree

Mawatte! turn!

Naranda! Sort it! (Fits in kind)

Obi Belt

Otaigai rei! Hello (bow) to the opponent (sparring partner)!

Rei greeting, worship

Seiretsu! Sort by belt!

Sensei coach, a teacher of karate

Sensei rei! Hello (bow) coach!

Shomen rei! Hello (bow) forward!

Tatami base for karate training

Te-waza hand techniques

Tsuki (Zuki) closed-fist punch

Uchi blow open hand

Uke block

Waza

Yame! Stop!

Yoi! preparation!

Zanshin state of calm and absolute control

BODY PARTS

Ashi Leg

Ashikubi ankle

Chudan middle part of the body (trunk area)

Empi Elbow

Gedan Lower body (the area from the waist down)

Heisoku instep

Hiza Knee

Ippon ken fist with one finger

Jodan Upper body (head area)

Kaisha open hands

Kakato heel

Kata Shoulder

Ken hands

Koshi foot

Shuto handblade

Sokuto outer edge of foot

Tate Ken vertical fist

These hand

Teisho bottom of the palm

Teisoku soles of the feet

Tsumasaki fingertips

Ude forearm

DIRECTIONS

Age ascending (up)

Gyaku contrary, opposite

Hidari Left

Mae Front

Mawashi Round

Migi Right

Otoshi (from top to bottom)

Sokumen side, flank

Soto external

Tate vertically

Toby Dodge

Uchi internal

Ushiro Rear

Yoko side

BLOCKS

Age uke high block of the lower part of the forearm (used to defend the head and upper body)

Gedan barai bottom of the forearm block (used to defend the lower body)

Shuto uke Middle block handblade

Soto uke Middle block outer side of the forearm

Ude uke Middle block inside of the forearm

HAND TECHNIQUES

Choke zuki punch forward (front hit or kiba dachi Heiko dachi)

Gyaku zuki punch to the body or head, the hand of the opposite front leg

Kizami zuki punch forward with lunges (front foot pulls the last one)

Oi zuki punch to the body or head, hand on the side of the front legs

Tettsui hit "fist-bump", hit the bottom of the hand from the top down

Foot techniques

Ashi barai techniques "clean" foot

Mae Geri Kumite kick put forward (the knee)

Mae Geri Kekomi kick put forward (the hook)

Mawashi geri arched kick

Ushiro geri Kick (heel) in the back

Yoko Geri Kumite blow to the side edge of the foot (the knee)

Yoko geri Kekomi foot edge kick to the side (the hook)

COLORS

Shiro White

Ki yellow

Orenji Orange

Aka Red

Midori Green

Ao blue

Murasaki Purple

Cha Brown

Kuro Black

FaLang traduction system by Faboba