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<\/p>\nThe other day, one of my friends sent me a link entitled, \u201cThe #1 Exercise To Do As You Get Older.\u201d Found at the AARP website, I suppose that it\u2019s very appropriate for your sensei\u2019s we are in our seventies, haha. Well, since I know that leg exercises are especially important for us \u201ckarate kupuna\u201d, I was guessing that it might be about Tai Chi. However, it wasn\u2019t about an entire regimen – instead, it was specific to just one exercise\u2026squatting.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019d have to say that I could never take up doing this. Even knowing about the great health benefits derived from squatting exercises, I\u2019m sure that I\u2019d get bored after a few reps.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, I now realize that over the past 53+ years, Sensei Peter, Wayne and I have all been \u201ctricked\u201d into doing hundreds of thousands of these beneficial \u201csquatting exercises\u201d, as every Shotokan zenkutsu\/kokutsu\/kiba-dachi and keri-waza involves forms of dynamic squatting movements! In other words, when we practice, besides appreciating the beauty and power of kata, learning interesting combinations, bunkai applications, and enjoying working up a sweat with our fellow karateka – we\u2019re all doing the #1 exercise to do as we get older. Yes, your sensei\u2019s may be in their seventies, but all of our adult members are in their 40\u2019s, 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s.<\/p>\n
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The HISKF tries to provide training for members of our community that involves safe, healthy exercise, a good understanding of Shotokan Karate-Do and the improvement of one\u2019s mind and spirit, at a price that families can afford. Our hope is that our members find the practice of karate as enjoyable as we do; sharing it with all of you. Good Squatting and have a Great Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The other day, one of my friends sent me a link entitled, \u201cThe #1 Exercise To Do As You Get Older.\u201d Found at the AARP website, I suppose that it\u2019s very appropriate for your sensei\u2019s we are in our seventies, haha. Well, since I know that leg exercises are especially important for us \u201ckarate kupuna\u201d, I was guessing that it might be about Tai Chi. However, it wasn\u2019t about an entire regimen – instead, it was specific to just one exercise\u2026squatting. Now I\u2019d have to say that I could never take up doing this. Even knowing about the great health benefits derived from squatting exercises, I\u2019m sure that I\u2019d get bored after a few reps. With that in mind, I now realize that over the past 53+ years, Sensei Peter, Wayne and I have all been \u201ctricked\u201d into doing hundreds of thousands of these beneficial \u201csquatting exercises\u201d, as every Shotokan zenkutsu\/kokutsu\/kiba-dachi and keri-waza involves forms of dynamic squatting movements! In other words, when we practice, besides appreciating the beauty and power of kata, learning interesting combinations, bunkai applications, and enjoying working up a sweat with our fellow karateka – we\u2019re all doing the #1 exercise to do as we get [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}