Could anyone explain their philosophy on how children, say 6-10 years old, are graded for their Kyu exams in contrast to adult testing?

I know each dojo or organization is different, but children obviously have less control of their body, and their Kata, Kihon and Kumite are usually not at a level that an adult would be required to demonstrate for promotion.

For example, a child's back stance could be off during their kata, or the child keeps coming up out of a front stance during their kata. The child may pass the examiniation, but an adult would not.

I would appreciate any feed bac

Hello fellow karate friends,

I am a brown belt- a 3rd KYU. I've got my grading today!!! I'm really scared but i know i'll pass because my friends,family, and even sensei's say i'm ready. When this is all over- i'll be really really pleased. Wish me luck!!!

Best Wishes.

Go shotokan Karate

Good Morning everyone!

The Springdale Karate Club has finally made their website official. We've been working on it for a few months, and finally got something we think everyone will enjoy.

We've posted some common videos on it for the time being, and will post and replace some with our own content as we get the chance to film with our Sensei.

Have a great day and stop by and visit:

www.springdalekarateclub.ca

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I've recently seen a video of my net friend with yellow belt doing kata Heian Nidan. For yellow belt kokutsu-dachi is a new stuff and as I watch many advanced karatekas, also a very hard to perform even for advanced. I tried to remind myself having a yellow belt but it was so long time ago that my memory reconstructs only my belt

But to the point.

I had decided to work on my kokutsu dachi, then in the evening I was training Kanku Dai at home: the part with mae geri and manji uke. Kokutsu dachi wasn't the main part of my training but my attention naturally was focused a bit on it because of the earlier decision.

On 20-22 November we played host to Sensei Dario Marchini (6 dan) and Sensei Christina Restelli (6 dan).

Sensei Dario Marchini is famous for his excellent technique, he was also the only person who's got championship in both world karate federation: WUKO (now WKF) and ITKF. Also the coach of italian national team to 2009.
His wife, Sensei Christina Restelli is also a wonderful competitor with many important medals.

First Sensei Dario led training for black belts only and they did Sochin (Friday evening). On Saturday we had all together two training sessions, 2 hours each. First part of training was always conducted by Sensei Marchini and we train together with lower grades. It was special Taikyoku form on Saturday - with changed block and punches (I had a fever so I was absent on the first training, especially I've passed with this fever my exam the day earlier). Then the advanced group did some kumite exercises.