Northstowe Karate Club

Northstowe Karate Club's 9th session

Tonight's session we focused on using our legs to generate power. When perform stepping punch (oi-zuki), we compress the front leg by moving the forward. As we step and the front leg becomes the rear leg we use the compression we've generated to push our bodies forward and perform a powerful punch.

We then practiced front kick (mae geri) and kihon kata. The key points of mae geri are: