NSTK Derby Karate Club

Went back to some basic footwork and punching drills tonight, foundation work is always important. Moved onto using body movement to avoid a straight punch and counter, then a balancing drill with two kicks at different heights.

Great work tonight everyone keep it up 💪👊👍

Warm evening, but good session. The focus tonight was at the fundamental basics such as footwork, punching and kicking technique. Finished off with some sparring.

That was a great lesson last night. We did some balancing exercise to help us when kicking. We then focused on height and accuracy of our techniques.

A very fun session tonight. We did some jumping to work on balance and combined this with a punch and kick, as well as tested ourselves with different heights. Then continued with different kicks.

Congratulations to Sienna and Lewis on passing their first grading. Keep it up 🤛👊🥋

Great work everyone tonight. Firstly, a special thank you to Ivan coming down and doing the gradings, you guys should get results next week.

Tonights sessions has been a mixture of drills to help footwork, hand-eye coordination as well as practicing different punching and kicking techniques.

Keep it up and see you next week 👍👊🤜

Went back to some basic footwork and punching drills tonight, because no matter how simple they are, it helps build a strong foundation to progress from. Moved on to timed pad work going into sparring. Great work tonight everyone keep it up 💪👊👍

What a wonderful night this lesson was. Started with some footwork and mixed a couple together to warm up with as well doing some traditional line work. Then moved into how to improve our punches to make faster and harder to notice. We then finished off with some self defense, and worked to come with scenarios and reactions to them which result in plenty of laughter.

Keep up the good work and laughter

Great work tonight, everyone should definitely sleep well after that haha. We had a more sparing focused lesson, but we used the gradings techniques in a more practical structure combining the blocks and deflections with counter attacks.

Well done tonight we've been working on techniques for gradings, and using drills to get used to distance and timing. Then finished off with some sparring.

Tonight we worked on some footwork drills and helping gauge our distance for punching and kicking. Great work tonight keep it up 👊

Great night tonight and enjoyed going through some kicks and helping balance while kicking. Then worked on a defensive drill which utilities footwork and deflections followed by a counter strike.

Great work tonight and thank you to everyone for coming. We started off with the first half of the session working on out punches through a drill inspired by a simple warm up exercise. Then finished off in the second half working on our kicks on both the kickshield and focus pads.

Sorry everyone there won't be any karate on Tuesday. Unfortunately due to covid the pub has had to close for the week but we should be back on Tuesday 25th.

It's good to be back. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We started out with doing some basic techniques, but then looked at improving them.

Thank you everyone for coming tonight and hope you're all getting ready for Christmas. Good work tonight, we focused on punches and kicks with the pads.

Next week will be the last session before Christmas and we will be taking a two week break. We'll be back on Tuesday 11th January 2022
Hope to see you all next week

Thank you to everyone for coming tonight. Focus on pad work tonight and getting used to hitting the target when we see it.

Good work tonight everyone and thank you for coming. We made a focus on balance tonight, working to improve it and finished off with some combinations on the pads.

Great night tonight, happy to feel enthusiasm and energy as we focused on punches and footwork. Being able to punch on the move without putting ourselves off balance and keeping ourselves safe. Great work everyone keep safe and see you all next week 👍👊

Thank you everyone for coming last night. We focused more on padwork this time.

Thank you everyone for coming tonight, had a great class doing a mixture of footwork, bean bag reaction drill and basic techniques.

Thank you to everyone for coming tonight for the FIRST class back. I've missed doing this and glad to be back.

Also for anyone interested in doing karate we're at a new venue in Alvaston.
The Cornishman Pub on Holbrook Road 7pm til 8pm