How To Training Martial Art

Based on training goal, martial art club is divided into 2 different types: Fighting Sport and Martial Dance.

A. Fighting Sport

For the beginning, we will start from Fighting Sport first as the oldest basic of all martial art type. Generally there are 3 training sessions in Fighting Sport club:

1. Stretching

Begin your training with stretching exercise slowly.

2. Basic Techniques

Train all your 6 basic strikes in 10 counts repetition for each techniques slowly (do it slowly!! Hitting the air too hard will hurt your elbow and shoulder joints).

Once finished, take a short break for 1 minute.

3. Extra Training

You can choose 1 extra training you like, for examples:

- Belly Breath Punch (using belly / abdominal breathing, your punch will hit harder).

- Elbow and knee strikes (self defense techniques for tight space combat).

- Pressure point strikes (self defense techniques to hit opponent vital points).

- Blocking (stopping opponent’s strike).

- Trapping (immobilize opponent’s arm).

- Sparring fight (sadly, we only can do proper sparring fight using proper gears at professional fighting club with our friends).

- Weapon fighting techniques (Use toy - dummy weapon for safety. Every dojo train different weapon style depend on the dojo owner’s personal interest).

B. Martial Dance

Now we will learn about training method in Martial Dance club. In this martial art club, there is no “Extra Training” because they already merged all basic strikes, extra strikes and blocking techniques into their dance choreography.

So they only do 2 training sessions: Stretching and dance choreography training (they also didn't do sparring fight, of course because their main focus is martial dance training).

In Martial Dance club, there is belt rank system used to tell how many dance forms mastered by the student.

Each belt rank must mastering 1 new dance form. For example in Karate Kata, white belt must mastering form 1, yellow belt must mastering form 2, and black belts (masters) means they already mastering all basic dance choreos.