Penn State Karate Club

The Penn State Karate Club will hold its Fall 2009 Demonstration on Tuesday, September 1st at 7:30 PM in 106 White Building on Penn State University's campus. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the karate club and how we train. Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff, and the general public. If you are at all curious about martial arts, we encourage you to attend.

The format of the demonstration will mirror our normal workouts and include many of the skills we normally practice. You will have an opportunity to observe the following:

* Warmup, stretching, and conditioning exercises
* Upper and lower body basics: the foundation of our karate style that include the blocks, kicks, and punches we practice
* Kata: the traditional forms of our style that combine stance, basics, and movement into a prearranged pattern.
* Sparring: we will demonstrate both prearranged and competitive point sparring in a controlled environment.
* Tameshiwari: the ever-popular breaking of construction materials

Following the demonstration, we will have a question and answer session. Please come and join us.