Best Karate Classes in Hitchin

Mae Geri Training Exercise (punchbag) Here is a mae geri training exercise on the punchbag, that is an excellent way to developmae geri training exercise power in your front kick and karate strikes, plus it’s great fun 🙂 The Front kick or Mae Geri we are talking about today is mae geri keage (front kick snap). The kick should travel like a bullet and not upwards where the kick would literally grazing the surface of the target. This shotokan karate front kick wants to penertrate the target, then viciously snap back releasing the shock into the target. Try to keep the upper body as still as possible as you start the front kick, but if you are working on developing more power, you can be excused small movement, as long as you are aware you are telegraphing the kick. Lift the knee strongly, keeping the heel of the kicking leg as close to the backside as possible. Drive from the supporting leg, through the hips, then kick and penertrate into the target, try and keep the upper body relaxed. Vigorously snap back, keeping the knee high momentarily, then returning to jiyu kamae (free sparring posture) One of the main problems when using a punchbag is where karateka hit the surface and do not penetrate the target. There are exercises where you do hit the surface, one is where you work on control, so you hit the target, but there is no movement of the punchbag, another one is where you are working on your control, so again, you deliver the front kick and touch the punchbag witho...