Thank you so much. I am a young woman learning karate and I was embarrassed and worried about kiai. Now I have complete confidence about doing kias after watching this video many times. I just need to practice these. I think for women we are kind of taught be to quiet and my background is in ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary dancing etc which usually involve being quiet definitely not shouting. So it feels very different.
Well done taking the decision to take up karate especially for a young woman, the benefits you will reap are never ending, I took up karate at University aged 19 that was 30 years because the guys kept trying in chap me up , I’d tell them to go away so would some would not, I realised I needed to learn to be more assertive, luckily a girl on my Nursing course was a karate black belt in Shotokan karate and invited me along to one of her classes, I’m now a karate black belt 3rd Dan and help run a dojo, incidentally my female karateka out number the men 4 to 1 many are Dan grades, as for your KIAI I used practice my KIAI whilst driving, no one can hear you lol, what belt are you now, I hope you continue and become a black belt and a Sensei , OSS...
