To all those that are interested in training with an excellent teacher, person and friend....Sensei Ron Fagan will be doing seminars at Stephen Perry's School on Wednesday at 6:15, Thursday at 7:15 and at Gary Khoury's school on Friday at 7:00.
Sensei Fagan is a student of and Chief Technical Director for O'Sensei Masami Tsuruoka the father of Canadian Karate-do. Many know Sensei Fagan for his work with our annual tournament as an excellent official. His knowledge goes well beyond the sport karate scene and for those that have an interest in improving their Kihon, Kumite(even for this saturday's tournament), Kata and goo hard core training should attend.
If you're not interested in breaking a sweat and training hard then I look forward to seeing you in the ring on Saturday.
Osu
Andrew Moores
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With a little bit of extra time on my hand while up for the New England tournament, I had another opportunity to work with Ron and some of his faithful at Gary Khoury's dojo on Friday evening. The group of us spent over 2 hours doing hard plyometric drills, partner drills based on them, and then sparring tactics that evolved from the partner work. This approach (with about 2 dozen such triple combinations) is one that Ron consistently takes to add a big of explosiveness and whole body speed into karate.
For some reason, martial arts is a bit late on picking up this type of training. It's one that's been used by athletes in the former Soviet Union/Eastern Block and even in Europe for about half a century. Basketball and football coaches seized on it in the past two decades, and the martial arts are just now incorporating the training principles and practices. This kind of work is absolutely not for the feint of heart or physical constitution, but the rewards for those with a good conditioning base can be significant.
Ron succeeded in turning my legs into useless rubber by the end of the session, but I'm happy to report to him (indirectly) that my calves are NOT sore as he predicted.
But I did need a stop at the 7-11 for a half gallon of Gatorade, and a large dose on Lamasil creme for the torn skin on the feet. It helped working on Gary's matted floor; these kinds of exercises can be very hard on the joints and most trainers recommend padded training surfaces for plyometrics. Gary's dojo was the perfect venue. "Turf toe" was the only major potential drawback. In any case, I would not like to have to face Ron's torture on the wood-over-concrete in Richmond.
I'm glad there are people like Ron and company raising the bar (so to write) on conditioning and training standards for the competitive karate athlete. Even if you're a person like myself who doesn't particularly care to "percolate" (Bobby Spoon's label for bouncing), the ability to explode off the mark and have power start with good whole-body movement and good leg strength is vital. I can tell you that for the handful of people that I knew were training this way for the tournament, I noticed - PARTICULARLY in the kata performance.
Thanks to all that made this workout possible. For the rest of you, keep an open mind for some of these new and extremely rigorous training methods.
- Bill
For some reason, martial arts is a bit late on picking up this type of training. It's one that's been used by athletes in the former Soviet Union/Eastern Block and even in Europe for about half a century. Basketball and football coaches seized on it in the past two decades, and the martial arts are just now incorporating the training principles and practices. This kind of work is absolutely not for the feint of heart or physical constitution, but the rewards for those with a good conditioning base can be significant.
Ron succeeded in turning my legs into useless rubber by the end of the session, but I'm happy to report to him (indirectly) that my calves are NOT sore as he predicted.
But I did need a stop at the 7-11 for a half gallon of Gatorade, and a large dose on Lamasil creme for the torn skin on the feet. It helped working on Gary's matted floor; these kinds of exercises can be very hard on the joints and most trainers recommend padded training surfaces for plyometrics. Gary's dojo was the perfect venue. "Turf toe" was the only major potential drawback. In any case, I would not like to have to face Ron's torture on the wood-over-concrete in Richmond.I'm glad there are people like Ron and company raising the bar (so to write) on conditioning and training standards for the competitive karate athlete. Even if you're a person like myself who doesn't particularly care to "percolate" (Bobby Spoon's label for bouncing), the ability to explode off the mark and have power start with good whole-body movement and good leg strength is vital. I can tell you that for the handful of people that I knew were training this way for the tournament, I noticed - PARTICULARLY in the kata performance.
Thanks to all that made this workout possible. For the rest of you, keep an open mind for some of these new and extremely rigorous training methods.
- Bill
