GETTING READY FOR TOURNAMENT DURING THE KID KARATE CLASS

At global martial arts Vista, we practice pure Shotokan karate during the kids karate class. We start every karate classes for kids with a quick warm up, then the karate class focus on basics, then kata, then sparring. 1 month before the tournament, we start to train a little more on kata and sparring. We try to find out what kata choices will be the best for each kid who participate to the karate tournament. Every kid in our karate class who participate in tournaments are competing in kata and kumite. Also, for the sparing aspect of the competition, we make sur that every karate kid in class understand the rules of the tournament.