10 Chishi Exercises for Beginner and Advanced Karate Students

Whether you’re a karate beginner, or consider yourself an advanced student of hojo undo, we hope you’ll enjoy our 10 chishi exercises for karate! We do a brief history of chishi, have a look at the different types, and add a few bonus exercises that are ideal for teaching kids in order to improve their midline crossing and proprioception. Please like, comment and subscribe for new videos every Friday at 2pm CAT! Visit our Teespring store for great karate merchandise: Check out my original blog post on the topic here: How to make your own chishi: Chapters: 00:00 - 00:14 - What this video covers 00:15 - 00:40 - A very brief history of chishi 00: 41 - 02:01 - The kinds of chishi we use 02:02 - 03:38 - Why chishi is effective 03:39 - 05:50 - Statue of liberty exercise for calibration and warm-up 05:51 - 06:32 -Exercise 1: swing and catch 06:33 - 07:00 - Exercise 2: over