Improve Your Cutting Techniques

[jkvlondon]

Its great, its also very important to strengthen your forearm muscles along with the core.. The shoulder joints are another important thing to strength, for sword play its a nice technique to use a sword, stick that is quite heavy, if you work with that and get techniqes down just think how effective you will be with a normal kirpan... !

I seem to remember reading somewhere people used to train using indian clubs (weights shaped like clubs) to strengthen grip and forearms....

here's one of the many videos on youtube

[savinderpalsingh]

hanji , they used to do that, i had picture before of a singh in amritsar swinging them

[jkvlondon]

Its great, its also very important to strengthen your forearm muscles along with the core.. The shoulder joints are another important thing to strength, for sword play its a nice technique to use a sword, stick that is quite heavy, if you work with that and get techniqes down just think how effective you will be with a normal kirpan... !

I like KBs because you get full package , muscle building, cardio fitness , flexibility and functional strength... but I'm still a beginner

[hsingh8963]

I can't think of a better start...

[jkvlondon]

I can't think of a better start...

veer ji,

i did put a post out to ask advice about martial arts (empty handed) which would be good for the bhujangis to learn , I've put them in Ninpo Taijitsu (Ninjitsu) and Japanese Jujitsu classes because the dojo seemed to take a similar attitude to gatka in developing the inner shanti and control alongside the physical techniques . I wanted to know if this would be a good base as these are the unarmed samaurai and Ninja techniques which lead into the sword play?

[hsingh8963]

veer ji,

i did put a post out to ask advice about martial arts (empty handed) which would be good for the bhujangis to learn , I've put them in Ninpo Taijitsu (Ninjitsu) and Japanese Jujitsu classes because the dojo seemed to take a similar attitude to gatka in developing the inner shanti and control alongside the physical techniques . I wanted to know if this would be a good base as these are the unarmed samaurai and Ninja techniques which lead into the sword play?

Its awesome, we see it all the time, parents put their kids into Gatka without any prior training and the children fall behind!! Jujitsu, and Ninjitsu are great.

[jkvlondon]

Its awesome, we see it all the time, parents put their kids into Gatka without any prior training and the children fall behind!! Jujitsu, and Ninjitsu are great.

I'm guilty of trying that too when the boys were younger, I realise now with maturity, that they have to be confident in themselves before arming up. They felt discouraged in their own abilities to look after themselves then ...this time they are raring to go and the sensei has a good training method which encourages and builds confidence quickly as it proves that they can do it .

[hsingh8963]

One thing I would caution is as a teen or younger kid when you start Gatka usually teens lay most of their attention on the Solider side of Saint Soldier, so they end up going Bana over Bani... I went through the same thing for a while. So I would also encourage a Large amount of focus on Bani, Santhiya, and Ithaas!

[jkvlondon]

One thing I would caution is as a teen or younger kid when you start Gatka usually teens lay most of their attention on the Solider side of Saint Soldier, so they end up going Bana over Bani... I went through the same thing for a while. So I would also encourage a Large amount of focus on Bani, Santhiya, and Ithaas!

I agree that's why the Sant comes before the sipahi always , :biggrin2: Gurmukh context is always needed for us in life .