| Title: |
Winning Competition Karate - Volume 1 |
| Publisher's site: |
Dragon Tsunami |
| Buy from: |
Amazon |
| Price: |
£34.95 |
| Date: |
2005 |
| Running time: |
55 minutes |
| Available formats: |
NTSC DVD |
| Featuring |
Yukiyoshi Marutani & Hideharu Igaki |
Winning Competition Karate - Volume 1
There are many ways to prepare yourself for competition. Biamonti's Competition Winning Techniques provides you with the actual combinations that you will use to overcome an opponent's defences. This DVD provides you with the training regime that will enable you to have the speed, strength, muscle memory and mindset to deliver those combinations.
Coming from Dragon Tsunami, the production values are excellent, with perfectly clear, legible narration using English terminology. The techniques and training is demonstrated by Yukiyoshi Marutani & Hideharu Igaki; both of whom are international competition coaches. Marutani also competed on the Japanese national squad.
Japanese training methodology is traditional and very much in line with GKR's, which is to say that we both believe in endless repetition of the basics in order to achieve competence.
This DVD is divided into a number a chapters and sub-sections as follows:
Preparation
stretching
exercise
kamae
Basic Techniques
basic punches
basic kicking
training for kicking
footwork
repetition training
Combination Techniques
basic
advanced
Each section is recorded in a matted studio, with normal and slow-motion footage. The narration clearly sets out what you are seeing, and why. More importantly, it also discusses other issues, such as vulnerabilities in a technique, distancing, timing, etc.
This superb DVD distills the wisdom that it may take years of conventional classes to hear, and even if you attend tournament class, it's invaluable to hear all of the issues and methodolgies so succinctly presented, enabling even experienced competitors to quickly refresh their knowledge. Although this is an expensive DVD, and under an hour long, it's so rich in content that I consider it to be money extremely well spent.
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