Shari Rodgers The other day on my way to class, I was asked, “Why don’t you all just wear sweats and not that?” (pointing to what I was wearing, known as a karate Gi). I thought it might be interesting to write about the Gi and explain why we wear it. Gi is a shortened…
It is how we start your karate path at the Quail Creek Dojo. Kihon refers to the basics, or fundamentals, of karate. The basic techniques of karate with constant repetition may be a better way to describe the term Kihon. One of the features of Kihon is that it can be performed from a stationary…