Karate | Okinawan Goju-ryu | Body conditioning | ude tanren | kote kitae

A few examples of conditioning the arm and hands (kote kitae) with hard but controlled strokes, blows and blocks for mental habituation. Within karate practice, depending on the goals and the performers, hard (as in the video) and soft performance of kote kitae is trained. Good care and guidance is needed to excecuted

Performer Lex Opdam and students
Video was taken in Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1999.

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While these short video examples are freely accessible, they are intended for Martial Mindfulness practitioners. The context of the content is covered during the lessons and the examples shown are meant to support training.
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