Archive for January, 2022
Why Karate Has High Kicks?
28Jan22
Do you want to know who, when, and why introduced high kicks to karate? The answer is in my article Why and Since When Are High Kicks in Karate? Tom Kurz throws a high roundhouse kick (mawashi-geri-jodan) with no warm-up
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Tags: high roundhouse kick, karate, mawashi-geri-jodan, warm-up
After immigrating to the U.S.A. in the early 1980s as a political refugee, I was looking for a way to make a living from my sports-science know-how. So I was looking at publications on various aspects of sports training and p.e., among them martial arts’ magazines. Especially in those martial arts’ magazines, I noticed a […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching, Sports Psychology/Mental Toughness | Leave a Comment
Tags: Flexibility, front-back splits, high kicks, martial arts, monkey mind, sports science, sports training, straddle splits, Thomas Kurz