Karate Basics for Beginners (Follow-along Lesson) 

I instructed kids for years in my art. I have to say you are so good at what you do . You make it so relatable and teachable.

I'm 68 and learning from you is AWESOME

Thanks! My grandma didn’t stand a chance

Straightening my leg for the kick was the hardest part. This toturial was easy, and fun! I've never done Karate before, so i will continue to watch your toturials!

I literally had just one lesson and joined when the classes have already started few weeks ago. I watched few videos but her videos are best so far for me. Very explanatory and slow pace helps to take in basic moves. Thank you so much.

Great class, even for us, we don´t practice Goju Ryu style. I´m in the shotokan style, but your class is so complete that it works for everyone. Greettings from Chile. Oss =) .

In the hard moments when you don't know how to defend yourself, you just need to decide what is better for you, the best choice is to learn a martial style, i joined muay thai and im going good, but im thinking to join karate, with such a good teacher you can trust and learn your self defense, Don't be shy, be strong and keep getting stronger

Absolutely love this training! Looking forward to more trainings from you in the future!

Thanks for the lesson. I really want to learn karate but there's no dojo near where I live so I think I'm gonna start here first.

I’ve taken a few online beginner classes, and thank you for providing ‘homework’ in this one! You’re a calm and patient instructor :)

Thank you Sensei for putting this video together! This is very informative and easy to follow. I will have my kids watch this to reinforce what they've already learned.

I have struggled with Mawashi Uke forever. Your nursery rhyme really helps! Great teaching!

Your teaching methods are absolutely amazing👏. And much appreciated to the hardwork you put into this

I am James F JR... I have been a Practitioner and enthusiast of Karate and the Martial Arts for more than 40 years. I think that you would be an excellent Instructor. I enjoyed watching your demonstrative movements as well as verbal instruction n. Very Professional. Thank you. You remind me of my former fiancee. So it actually captured my attention much longer. I hope to see you online again. God Bless You. Thank you for bringing back memories.

Arigato gozaimashita sensei! I have alot of time for anyone who takes the time to break down kihon and finding interesting ways to describe how to perform each technique. Very nice! 🙏🏾🥋

Just started Goju Ryu at the good young age of 61....... Very helpful video..... From a Fellow Greek in Dagenham East London UK.

Excellent. The use of rhymes is a excellent teaching tool at any age!

I enjoy your lessons, you give clear instructions. Thank you very much for the free knowledge.

I hope you continue these basic lessons. Really enjoy your teaching method.

i like the step by step instructions focusing on the key points like when to and how to complete the twist at the end of the punches.

Thank you for the very easy to follow tutorial, while still being technically precise! Your teaching ability is equal to your high level of skills in demonstrating the techniques. ✌🥋👊

thank you so much. im learning karate as an adult beginner and using your videos to practice inbetween lessons. really informative and appreciate you giving us lots of chances to practice each move!

Thank you Zoe for this wonderful exercise, 💪karate practice video❗ Been watching / practicing with your instructions multiple times this last couple of months. From my youth have always been a fan👍 of Bruce Lee💥 but only got the chance to take up karate in a college course that covered what you show here. White belt to white belt sigh🙄 but hopefully one day I can afford 💪real lessons🙏

Your tutorial videos are very good and I am learning a lot of good karate from you. Don't stop uploading tutorial videos. He sent you greetings from Peru 🇵🇪

Nice lesson! Glad to see so many taking that first step. Keep punching!

Thanks for your lessons master 🙏

I love your explanations! Good job! 👍🏼

Thank you so much I love your videos u make it so comfortable for me to learn and easy to learn the move

these basics are great for me as a refresher coarse , thanks , I can forget some of these basics over time

Excellent vid for beginning Goju. Thank you for your time and energy producing this great vid. Looking forward to many more. Domo arigato. Peace

What a great teacher! I wish I lived near you.

I Am 54 I Gained A 4th KYU In Shotokan 25 Years Ago In The U.K But Had To Stop Because Of Long Work Hours. Basics For Beginner Is Great & A Great Way For Me To Get Back In To Karate.

I am 67 yrs, from Mumbai India, want to learn karate to defend and attack when need be, I am going to learn practice and master these techniques taught today, thanks

Thanks for this fantastic video!

This is another great video GRKC. Just revisited it again 2 months after you posted it.

thank you verry much this Karate Basics for Beginners is great

As a new Goju Ryu student this is an excellent video

Wow, your method of teaching is phenomenal 👏🏼 the nursery rhymes are just as helpful for adults! You are by far the best teacher I've come across on RU-vid. Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻💖🌞👐🏻🦋

Just added this video to my home training routine. What I realized is this, I could either pay to go to a martial arts dojo using money that I don't have or I could gather seven lessons which I did, and master them and repeat with more advanced karate videos and grow with my training as I master each video. For me it's a no brainier and you ma'am are an excellent instructor. Thank you for such a an awesome video

Thank you sensei🥋

Great teacher! Loved the kata!

My gym went bust so I am working through your videos, first real Karate since 1978 thanks a lot!

Nice to see you on video Sensi. Loved it. Thank you for your hard work. No thanks need. It benifits me also in my worksiut. 😘❤️

Took my third lesson in goju ryu today and thanks to you i can practice at home, awesome :)

Thank you so much Madam.

Your so good. Thank You so Much. Greetings from Tanzania

great video, great techniques and great editing, thanks alot

Very helpful teaching this is best you have to repeat again an again this is very helpful 🙏

Thanks a lot 🌹🙏 Very helpful lesson to start Goju-ryu course. Please add more elementary lessons.

Thank you for every step well explained

I study shotokan karate myself but fully enjoyed watching and following your very clear instructions and want to say thank you for the video

Clear and informative, great video. 👍

Thank you for the basic stuff that works more better for me

I have only done a small amount of teaching with children. It is not something I really like to do, but always try to do well. You and Che are extraordinary. This is a great video, such good explanations. The kids in your program are VERY fortunate. You will, I think, have an incredible impact in their lives while carrying on a great TMA tradition. All the Best!

Great explanations and demonstrations, not just for kids! And I love the included text comments :)

I would watch this wonderful video just to listen to Zoe's British accent! It would almost be worth traveling to another continent to take in-person lessons- excellent presentation, rhythm, knowledge, skill... ! I immediately noticed the resemblence to Uma Thurman in the "Kill Bill" movies (in the U.S.). I studied Taekwondo for several years; attention turned now to Karate. Thank you for the video, very well done! [Please open a dojo in the U.S.!]

Really wonderful teaching

Nice one, easy to follow.. Much love from Kenya

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're a fantastic instructor. My daughter is 4.5 and we just started her in lessons. Her first night was overwhelming; the other students already know many of the beginner level moves and terms/language. This will help us so much! I wish you were here in Florida (well the U.S. version anyhow) . Yep, had to look up your Dojo - then your personal blog. You have a new fan. 🙂

Thank you for the lesson! I did this with my kids during s snow day and it was a hit!

Please put out more teaching videos like this!

Am following teachings are well explained that u can also train by ur own...

Love this I just started karate and it help a LOT

Nice presentation , thanks a lot for this valuable footage Keep up and be blessed 🌼🌻👍

You are good sensei, i have yet to come across someone who has broken the basics so well. All the very best in your endeavor.

Questa sport sempre mi ha piaciuto, faccio fatica per imparare bene, bella lezione grazie mille, quando tempo serve per imparare bene.

Good to learn those basics! Thanks alot!

You are a wonderful Sensei.I trained Goju Ryu Karate,and Korean Tang Soo Do.I wish your Dojo was close to where my residence is located,in Florida;because it would be an honor to train with such a caring Sensei.

Thank you for the basics!!

That was an awesome lesson.

Your videos are the best to understand martial arts

Amazing video! Thank you

this is super awesome, thank you

Hai Sensei, Thanks for this. Kindly do a video of how to start and end a formal Goju Ryu class.

Excellent way of teaching

Basics are so important. It can be considered that basics are the start of mastery....when one can hone the fundamentals.The reason is because if someone has not got good basics they wont move well later on with advanced material. Great video !👍

Nice moves ,slow and easy to follow

Great job 👏 ❤

Excellent teaching voice!

Thank you I love to watch you and I'm starting to have Training a karate. Together with Some of my Colleagues

Oss Sensei Thank you so much for your interesting training and excellent coaching,i do appreciate your job,i wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity,all the best, take care and have a good time. Your Student from Algeria

You are very kind and fitness

Thanks for the video

Hi..Goju...i like your way to teach..good teacher..live you cheers

Thank you Sensei Zoë

Wow Great its very helpful for me Thank you 😊🥰🤩

Thank you I need because soon I Will go to karate 🥋

Hello, I am from Mumbai,India you have given very informative basics of karate, 👍 I became happy thank,

I love Karate 😍 thank you so much for your video ☺️

Thank you so much this helped me now i love karate thank you so much

Very good and instructive video to reactivate Karate-knowledge after years of non-practice. As it is I used to train Shotokan-Karate when I was a youngster and kept up with it until my mid-twenties. Then I had a very hard accident with my right knee so that it would not work as well as before anymore. However, I started a new training in Wing Tsun and there I realized how valuable all my previous knowledge from Shotokan was. Some months later (I already have an intermediate level of Wing Tsun now) I heard our Sifu (Chinese word for "Sensei") say the following: "depending on your moving habits or your previous knowledge of other martial arts each and every one of you will build up another individual style of Wing Tsun. Those who did Karate in the past will be able to understand movements and techniques another way than people who never attended a course in self-defense before. Judokas or wrestlers will practice another form of Wing Tsun than people coming from Karate or Tae Kwon Do." Actually I understood what he meant: "Every movement (turn, hip-vibration) or technique (punch, kick, block etc.) you learn is a PLUS for your capacity to defend yourself. So I re-started to have a look at Karate again, checked the principles of each technique I recalled and...voilà! There are no limits to combine techniques, methods (e.g. Ka Kie, Chi-Sao, Kihon-Ippon Kumite...). It's a whole universe opening up in front of me! Marvelous!

FANTASTIC

I'm 30 turning 31and I want you to learn karate and I enjoy this class

Good teaching thank you

You guys are amazing ❤️😍

Thank you maam.

Very impressive keep on I salute you

Thank you sensei!

your teaching more than what i should have and thanks for that btw i subbed

Thanks good video