Karate Tournaments Tips And Tricks

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Sinopsis

Hi my name is Scott Boyd. I am a 6th dan in traditional karate do. I have been awarded the title of Shihan. I have been teaching karate for over 30 years and have compleated at all levels of martial arts tournaments including regional, state, national and international competitions and I was very successful at it.When it comes to competing in martial arts tournaments. I believe there are two types of competitors, firstly those who are naturally sports gifted and seem to do well at any sport they choose and ar natural fighters. The second is like me, those who aren't gifted athletes but do well at their chosen sport because they have a passion for it.Because I'm not a gifted athlete nor am I a natural fighter but I have done extremely well in martial arts competition. I'm here to give you the tips and tricks that I have learned that have helped me excel in martial arts competition.For some, my tips just may be a refresher, to remind them of some of the basics but to others I'm hoping that they will be a valuable resource for helping their martial arts competition dreams come to reality. Not everyone is a natural fighter but with the right guidance I believe anyone can be a great fighter!These are short 90 second tips to help you win a martial arts tournamentIf you like my tips please let me know. I have more to come when I get timeDrop me a note at scott@pollets.com.au or rate me on Itunes

Episodios

  • Tip 56 testing at technique to the point of failure.

    19/07/2015 Duración: 05min

    Today's tip is a little bit different, as it isn't one of mine. I recently went to a sword seminar where the sensei was promoting this idea so I thought I would share it with all you. I think sometimes as martial artists we can forget the reality of fighting. I'm not talking about tournament fighting because it is a controlled environment and even though it can be very heavy combat the chances of being permanently maned are very remote. But in a real-life situation as in a street fight the odds of being hurt are astronomical. I had seen so many karate students that think they know how to street fight and they start throwing reverse punchs and wonder why it doesn't work or like the tae kwon do guys that tries to throw jumping spinning kicks and gets punched in the face and wonders why. We all need to take a dose of reality when it comes to the techniques we use and as this teaches told me we need to test it to breaking point. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of m

  • Tip 55, Ways to improve the speed of your kicks.

    23/05/2015 Duración: 10min

    There are many different ways to improve your speed, whether it be punch or kick. In this tip is a few ways that I use to improve the speed of my kicks. Sometimes this does need a small amount of change to your form, but other times it may be just the way you need to train. I've spoken many times about ways to improve kicking changing the way we kick and understanding where speed is generated from with each particular kick is imperative. Some forms of kicking are better suited for speed techniques and some are suited to power techniques. A classic example of this is a front foot Roundhouse kick should be used for speed and the back foot Roundhouse kick should be used to driving power. However sometimes we may need to change these around. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 54, dealing with super aggressive opponents.

    15/05/2015 Duración: 05min

    For an average student completing tournaments or for any fight competition for that matter, one of the hardest part to deal with is facing an opponent that appears to be either super aggressive, crazy or a combination of both. Basing these types of competitors can be not only offputting but just downright scary. My tip today is some strategies on how to deal with this type of opposition. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 53, Fixing bad habits.

    10/05/2015 Duración: 08min

    When it comes to competing in martial arts competitions fixing bad habit is imperative. The biggest problem with bad habits is that many times you don't actually know you're doing them. I recently refereed at a tournament and it reminded me how easy bad habits are to pick up, things like turning your head when the other person is attacking, having a low guard or even just not moving that well. As with all bad habits they are hard to break expressly did don't know you are doing them. Many times in training bad habits are not picked up. It's only when you get put under extreme pressure that they express themselves. This is where you need a good coach or teacher to pick them up and your job as a student to work diligently to correct them. Bad habits include, low or no guard. Turning your head from an attack. Not being mobile and/or poor footwork. Not attacking. Running away from an attack. Not pacing yourself, and running out of energy. Going crazy with your techniques and not thinking on form hastily thrown t

  • Tip 52 another quick tip on stretching.

    26/04/2015 Duración: 06min

    There are many different forms and techniques of stretching and flexibility exercise. Many styles have different and varied stretching techniques some more effective than others. Today's tip is all about one simple exercise that I have found super effective for both strength and flexibility training. It can be used for a warm up or as a hard stretching technique. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 51, Is it important to look cool when fighting?

    03/04/2015 Duración: 05min

    I often say that Black belt can set a poor example when it comes to teaching lower grade students a safe way to fight in competition. It is not on purpose, but by accident with their own personal form. The problem is when people get proficient at technique, timing and strategy . They tend to forget about basics. But beginners need basics and they need to copy off senior instructors that demonstrate good basics in their everyday techniques and sparring applications. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 50, speeding up fancy techniques.

    13/03/2015 Duración: 08min

    I think everybody wants the ability to do a fancy techniques, and a big part of that is there so fun and cool to do. Whether it be a basic form of fancy techniques such as the spinning back kick or something a little different such as a double spinning hook kick and the like. The problem is they are slow to perform and fraught with danger. A good example of this is using a spinning or kick in a demonstration to break aboard, it looks so cool but the board is static and doesn't move. Using the same technique against a opponent is a different story. The kick has to be performed with perfect timing in the perfect situation to make work because when most people perform these kicks they're so easy to see it coming. This tip is on how we can speed these techniques up. So instead of using these just as a following up technique, we may be able to develop them as an attacking technique. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, S

  • Tip 49. A few tips on flexibility.

    03/03/2015 Duración: 10min

    As martial artist we all want to be flexible for many different reasons. I'm guessing the main reason would be so we can kick people in the head. But this isn't the only reason, preventing injury would be the most important thing for many students. So today is about a few tips and thoughts on getting flexible. I hope it helps. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 48, Using fancy techniques in tournaments

    17/01/2015 Duración: 07min

    I think that just about all students want to do some fancy technique that they had seen on television or a movie, it is something that we all inspire to do. You don't have to be a black belt to perform some of these techniques, but there are some good and bad points about them, especially you want to use these in tournaments. Today's tip is about using the positives and negatives of these forms of techniques. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd

  • Tip 47. Turning the switch on and off.

    28/11/2014 Duración: 08min

    As martial artist we need to learn control, a part of control is learning when to be aggressive and not to be aggressive, learning to control anger and use anger and when to be calm. So today I talk about how to switch this on and off the both in sparring and competition fighting as well as in kata As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 46, quick thoughts on refereeing

    07/11/2014 Duración: 12min

    Most competitors really don't understand how difficult the job of refereeing martial arts tournament is, today I'm giving a few tips and our little rant about refereeing. But the good stuff and the bad stuff. If you are competing in martial arts tournament, you really should listen to this tip because I also give some advice on how to deal with the highest an unfair refereeing. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 45 Roundhouse kick - head punch making it work!

    18/10/2014 Duración: 07min

    Simple techniques like Roundhouse kick followed by a head punch is what most martial artist do on a regular basis. But like many techniques that we do it can be tidied up and made much more effective. Simple changes to form and hand positioning can make all the difference. In this tip I'm doing just that, a simple way to speed up the Roundhouse kick and an even simpler way to hide the following punch. I hope you enjoy and find it informative As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 44 Hiding the jab

    17/08/2014 Duración: 03min

    Today I'm giving you a quick tip on how to speed up the jab or more to the point on how to hide the jab to make it more effective. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 43, Front for speed rear for power.

    17/08/2014 Duración: 07min

    I have covered this in some other tips but I thought it was time to put it in its own category. Many fighters tried to knock out with but I feel that this is a bit self-defeating. By doing speed techniques of your front hand it is much more conducive to the posture your body is set in. Kicking off the front foot is something that many fighters like to do and they try to make it a power technique, again and we should be adjusting these techniques for speed and not power. I also recap on the difference between speed which produces the impact and power which produces force and push. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 42, Is it wrong to stretch the rules or is it cheating?

    19/07/2014 Duración: 29min

    I want to continue to this discussion I want your input as competitors and fighters on your view, you can record something not being on the pod cast or certainly send me an e-mail with your comments and your view. In today's podcast I'm going to look at a rather large subject, many people believe that stretching the rules is a good thing and just as many believe it is basically cheating. Today I'm going to go into this a little bit more deeply and give you something to think about. Things like: "are you using the rules to the maximum benefit", "if someone deliberately does a foul and then is happy to take a penalty point is this cheating?", "Should you win at all costs or play fairly", "if the rules don't cover a certain situation such as striking at the guard is this cheating?", "His sledging somebody during a fight cheating, beneficial or just plain bad sportsmanship". I go into all these questions in a rather deep way giving you some positives and negatives for each and then give you my personal opinion

  • Tip 41, Using footwork to increase striking power

    28/06/2014 Duración: 09min

    When punching in space, if you're not moving there is no effective way to deliver power any power in the punch. It gets delivered both ways into the target and as recoil. Obviously when punching there needs to be some method of delivering power, if we have hold of the ground we can deliver power, if we move forward we can deliver the same amount power plus more by sheer momentum. In this episode of tips and tricks I discuss the benefit of moving when striking, as in the example above the benefit of moving forward while striking is adding your body weight momentum to the punch, this doesn't have to be a huge lunge forward it can be done in millimetres. Delivering punches or strikes from a static stands has to be generated from the feet up. Many people only jab using their arm, and to me they resemble one of those punching puppets because that's about all the power they produce. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 40, Useless techniques

    03/06/2014 Duración: 07min

    Today's tip is about techniques that we all doing martial arts but have a limited effectiveness. I'm using a sidekick as an example and talking about when, where, how to use it and when not to use it, as well as the shortfalls the technique has. But this also applies to other techniques that I don't discuss. As with many of my tips these are things that work for me and you may not agree with but I hope that you do agree with the principles that I'm trying to get across As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 39, Five reasons to Kiai

    21/05/2014 Duración: 09min

    Most forms of martial arts to do some form of Kia, and almost 100% of the time it has the same use "to develop power" but that's only a part of what the Kiai is all about. In this episode I will give you five reasons to Kiai some are more obvious than others. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 38, Why when and how to use a body rush

    06/05/2014 Duración: 06min

    One of my all-time favourite techniques is a body rush. Today I explain what is a body rush and how to perform it, and more importantly when is the best time to use it. The intimidation fact that this technique offers is worth its weight in gold. Here is a link to a video that helps to explain tip 37. http://youtu.be/XLJEzr2IB1k just cut and paste and put it in your browser As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

  • Tip 37, One simple way to improve your defence and counter-attack.

    20/04/2014 Duración: 03min

    Here is a a quick tip for you it is a simple way to train and improve your movement when counter-attacking. Learning how not to be a target and forcing the opposition into a position where it wrecks their attack so you can score with your technique. As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au

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