Laser beam

Learning: Always pay attention at your surrounding. Connect two obi’s with each other and let all your students walk around the tatami. Whenever you get close to the laser beam them, will have to jump over the obi. Of course you can also let them get underneath or roll over the obi. Tip: To make […]

Kicking and Dodging with Obi

Learning: Kicking and dodging over the obi makes you want to get better  In this video you’ll have 4 obi exercises, two focussed on dodging and kicking. For the kicking exercise. Take one (or two) obi, and hold it with your partner. Give one side of you obi to your partner under your legs. Now […]

Jo on the spot

This is a sequence of different jo exercises you can do as a warm up. But also do them separately an X amount of times. Tip: Like all exercises, it’s good to gain some muscle but don’t over do it. 

Push-ups

These 8 different ways of doing pushups are like the abb crunches and can be seen as exercises or parts of a warming up. Of course you can also combine them with a fun-damental (for example when a theory answer is wrong). Tip: Like all exercises, it’s good to gain some muscle but don’t over […]

Abb crunches with two

These 5 ways of abb crunches are done by two people and can be seen as just as an exercise, or warming up. If you want you can combine it with a fun-damental (for example when an theory answer is wrong and both people have to do this exercise) Tip: Like all exercises, it’s good […]

Abb crunches

These abb crunches can be done just as an exercise. But also during a warming up or as a correction on someones bad behaviour. Or just for in combination with a fun-damental (for example when an theory answer is wrong). Tip: Like all exercises, it’s good to gain some muscle but don’t over do it.

Crossing animals (1)

This warming up uses characteristics of animals which are good to exercise with, specially if you use the long side of the tatami.

DJ on the floor

Learning: Create abbs by turn and twist. Also use your hands to keep distance to your partner. Not just great idea to clean the tatami, but also get some great abbs. One partner stands and the other lays down on the floor with the belly on the tatami. The one standing should try to touch the […]

Smelly feet

Learning: Train your side abb’s too. This exercise one partner lays down on it’s back while the other stands over it’s head (their feet next to their ears). The person laying down grabs the ankles of the standing partner. Than they raise their feet up in the air in front of the standing partners nose. […]

Clapping Hands

Learning: Losing your balance makes you fall in the right way. Sit in crouched position with your partner, hands 5cm away from each other. Try to clap each other out of balance. Whoever falls, has to do a backfall. Depending on your space this can be a ukemi with or without ‘full ushiro ukemi’. Ofcourse […]