We held an informal tournament for students to try out for the karate team at Cedar Rdige Academy Boarding School. The coed team is Nicolette (captain), Jamie, James, Brendan,Zane, Evan, Kelsey, with alternates Lauren, Alex D., Seth, and Shelby. Our first travel day will be February 5 to train with fifth dan Amadou Niang in Salt Lake City.
January 16, 2011
January 11, 2011
Black Belt Challenge Karate Team for 2011
Here's a piece of my article in the January Spectrum. It gives a very brief overview to karate training and competition for the Team.
Karate Team in TrainingThe Cedar Ridge Shotokan Black Belt Challenge Karate Team has started training for our 2011 tournament schedule.
A team of seven members and two alternates train on Sundays in addition to our weekly training schedule of karate on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The team training on Sundays places more emphasis on the strategies and rules of competition, to supplement the basic forms and partner practice the students get in the weekday classes.
Students on the karate team train to compete in two categories when they attend a tournament. The first category is kata, which is a choreographed set of moves designed by some previous karate master that all students in the discipline learn and perform. If you attend a tournament, you will see several of the competitors in any given division perform the same kata. In kata, the student who performs with the best form and timing, the most power, and the most technical accuracy wins. Obviously, different judges see different things from different angles, so a winner is essentially determined by a group vote.
Read the rest of the article at www.cedarridgeacademy.net/newsletter.html and link to the January 2011 issue of The Cedar Spectrum.
Karate Team in TrainingThe Cedar Ridge Shotokan Black Belt Challenge Karate Team has started training for our 2011 tournament schedule.
A team of seven members and two alternates train on Sundays in addition to our weekly training schedule of karate on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The team training on Sundays places more emphasis on the strategies and rules of competition, to supplement the basic forms and partner practice the students get in the weekday classes.
Students on the karate team train to compete in two categories when they attend a tournament. The first category is kata, which is a choreographed set of moves designed by some previous karate master that all students in the discipline learn and perform. If you attend a tournament, you will see several of the competitors in any given division perform the same kata. In kata, the student who performs with the best form and timing, the most power, and the most technical accuracy wins. Obviously, different judges see different things from different angles, so a winner is essentially determined by a group vote.
Read the rest of the article at www.cedarridgeacademy.net/newsletter.html and link to the January 2011 issue of The Cedar Spectrum.
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