Sharpen your skills with the best tips and drills from martial arts experts to practice at home!
Students will cross their feet together and execute sit ups as a team. You can also add punches or high fives to the sit ups.
Conditioning | Fitness | Sit Up | Teamwork
Students will execute push ups facing each other, then adding high fives in between the push ups. You can also incorporate clapping push ups.
Conditioning | Fitness | Push Ups | Teamwork
Students will do jumping jacks, hitting their stomach as hard as they can every time they bring their feet together. Take advantage of the many variations of this drill.
Conditioning | Fitness | Cardio
A great exercise to target the core abdominal muscles, the ab clap can be used with or without weights in hand to add levels of difficulty.
Conditioning | Fitness | Abs | Dumbbells
This exercise focuses on the core and legs. The lunges will work the legs while the twisting at the end will strengthen the core.
Conditioning | Fitness | Lunge
This drill will help you maximize height when doing tricking forms or techniques. This drill is also great to incorporate into a functional fitness routine.
Fitness | Conditioning | Tricking | Jumping | Exercise
There are two primary jumping techniques used in martial arts tricking. Use this drill to help your students master these jumps and become better trickers.
Sport Karate | Tricking | Jumping | Plyometrics
The bear crawl is a classic drill in martial arts classes. However, many instructors forget that you can use this warm up in a variety of different directions.
Warm Up | Fitness | Kids Drills
These warm up drills, named after animals, use your own body weight and are intended to be used after your students have already warmed up a bit. This particular drill works the shoulders and lower body, known as the "Rabbit".
Warm Up | Kids Drills | Fitness
The beginner level of the knee jump is a simple transition from both knees being on the ground, to what is called a "power position".
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The next level of the knee jump works power transfer and bounding. Simply add another jump immediately after reaching power position.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The final level of this progression uses a bo staff to add a snatch to the knee jump. This motion creates a tremendous amount of violent hip power.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness
The third level of this progression incorporates box jumping to maximize force. This drill is designed for a low number of reps.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | PlyoBox | Fitness