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ok... I guess we could start with some karate history:

karate was invented by Gichin Funakoshi (船越義珍) in about 1920. At that time there were no colored belts but only the white belt, but then how did you know the best one? At that time, it's kind of funny to say, whoever had the dirtiest belt was the best.

Now there are colored belts with which you can easily understand who is the best and your level, the order of the belts is (from weakest to strongest): White⬜ Yellow🟨 Orange🟧 Green (my level, but soon I will become blue)🟩 Blue🟦 Red🟥 Purple🟪 and black⬛

In the next forums I will explain some basic defense and attack techniques😄

ok... I guess we could start with some karate history:

karate was invented by Gichin Funakoshi (船越義珍) in about 1920. At that time there were no colored belts but only the white belt, but then how did you know the best one? At that time, it's kind of funny to say, whoever had the dirtiest belt was the best.

Now there are colored belts with which you can easily understand who is the best and your level, the order of the belts is (from weakest to strongest): White⬜ Yellow🟨 Orange🟧 Green (my level, but soon I will become blue)🟩 Blue🟦 Red🟥 Purple🟪 and black⬛

In the next forums I will explain some basic defense and attack techniques😄

Great start to the Karate crash course! 👌

This is a really cool lesson teacher Lawrence!! 🥋🥷 I feel already a bit more dangerous so I can skip to level Black! 😛 How long do you now do karate? And are there different types karate like ballet (classical, modern, jazz, etc.)? Which type is that you do now? 🏋️‍♀️

Thank you for the lesson!! Arigato gozaimasu!! 🙇‍♀️🙏

This is a really cool lesson teacher Lawrence!! 🥋🥷 I feel already a bit more dangerous so I can skip to level Black! 😛 How long do you now do karate? And are there different types karate like ballet (classical, modern, jazz, etc.)? Which type is that you do now? 🏋️‍♀️

Thank you for the lesson!! Arigato gozaimasu!! 🙇‍♀️🙏

For now, I've been doing karate since 2021. And yes there are differents types of karate, I do Shotokan

ok we can start with some basic karate techniques:

First I would say start with your fists. Karate punches are not thrown normally but instead: the punch opposite to the one you are throwing must be at the pelvis, so that when you change the punch you throw, the other one will come at you with more power. It is important that the fist at the side is with the closed palm facing upwards, basically like this ✊ (seen from above) and obviously when you change your fist you have to turn it like this 🤛

Tell me if I was not clear or you did not understood something. It's hard to describe karate tecniques by Just writing😅

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🟢 Question: ...would you call it a win, when you run from a fight,
so that possibly noone is getting hurt, Lawrence?

Thank You

keep in mind that running away is the first thing you have to do if someone wants to attack you, this does not indicate that you are a coward but that you do not have problems with that person. So yes, running away makes you stronger and it's like you won

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Hello Lawrence

🟢 Questions: What is the weighting ... Combat-Training and Gynastics?

Thank You

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

Is it 10 % Gynastics and 90 % Combat?
Or 50% ... 50%

I think it's 30% gymnastics and 70% karate. We do a lot of stretching and strenght exercises

I think it's 30% gymnastics and 70% karate...

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Thank You, Lawrence.

🟢 Questions: Does it change in the Higher Grates?

No it's the same in every belt grade. We all do the same exercises