Pinewood Karate

Pinewood Karate Pinewood Karate is a very strong self defense art that includes karate, jiu jitsu, grappling and box Other students joined in to study the martial arts.

Pinewood was founded in 1989 by (Napa Valley doctor), Dr. Daniel E. Andrews III and his wife Laurie to teach their children the ancient art of karate-do. They started the school on Pinewood Drive in Napa, thus the name, "Pinewood". As with any good idea, especially one backed by a good and pure motive, it caught on. The students called themselves the "Pinewood Karate Club". The "club" continued to

grow, but quickly needed a larger place for classes. Since then, the school has been in 3 facilities (dojos) before building a permanent Headquarters in 1994.

05/15/2020

"Turn on the Heel, Land on the Heel."

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05/13/2020

Joseph Bisconer, Chief Instructor at Pinewood Karate.
Watering Plants...The Foundation of Karate is Farming🌾🥋
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Professor Okazaki. Founder of Danzan Ryu jujitsu. Check out the photo to see where you are in relation to him in our Pin...
05/10/2020

Professor Okazaki. Founder of Danzan Ryu jujitsu. Check out the photo to see where you are in relation to him in our Pinewood lineage🥋
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A massage liniment known as “dit da jow” is traditionally used to treat an injured area. The name “dit da jow” in Chine...
05/03/2020

A massage liniment known as “dit da jow” is traditionally used to treat an injured area. The name “dit da jow” in Chinese, translates as “fall-hit wine”.
These formulas are often closely guarded family and martial art school secrets. The “fall-hit wine” is usually prepared with rice wine and is traditionally stored in a clay jar and buried in the ground for several months or years. Aged dit da jow is felt to be stronger and therefore more effective therapeutically.
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Some of these liniments are made with Turpentine as the base. It is interesting the Turpentine is derived from Pinewood (Pine trees) and has been used medicinally since ancient times.
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These days, companies, mainly in Asia, commercially produce liniments that are sold in small glass bottles and are available on the internet.
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Some high level martial art practitioners are trained in massage, bone setting, splinting, herbology, first aid, physical therapy and other forms of restoration therapy.
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Pinewood Karate, through the Napa Valley School of Massage, teaches restorative massage to selected students and uses these liniments in lessons. @ Pinewood Karate

In Traditional Chinese medicine, a bruise is considered an area of “blood and chi stagnation”.Gently massaging the inju...
04/29/2020

In Traditional Chinese medicine, a bruise is considered an area of “blood and chi stagnation”.
Gently massaging the injured area is felt to be beneficial in restoring blood and chi flow.
Follow to learn next about how liniments are used to heal in the martial arts.
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Learn to change your karate stances and body positions!🥋From the attention stance, you can move to a “ready position” by...
04/21/2020

Learn to change your karate stances and body positions!🥋
From the attention stance, you can move to a “ready position” by placing each of your feet on two of the corners of the base of the triangle.
You could practice bowing correctly like we do in class – chin down, back and neck straight, looking at your opponent through your eyebrows – watching his every move.
Notice that the point of the triangle would be pointing towards your opponent. We assume that your opponent is in front of you but of course, the opponent has the ability to move too.
In the next photo, I am pivoting my left foot so that I remain in balance and don’t strain my left knee. Then I step forward with my right foot to the top point of the triangle.
With my feet in new positions and my body at a new angle, I assume a “horse riding” stance. You want to tuck your tailbone under and straighten your low back.
I am balanced, with my weight in the center. My hands are akimbo (akimbo means that my hands are on my waist).
Note: I am keeping my hands akimbo (on my waist) to allow me to concentrate on my stepping technique.
This movement allows me to advance slightly toward my opponent while creating a beneficial angle for my self-defense technique.
Alternately, I could be in the ready position, then pivot my left foot and move to a “back stance” (defensive position) to face an opponent to my left (either the opponent moved to a new position or there is a second attacker).
In the last photo, I am back at the base of the triangle and have been grabbed - either grabbed by one or both of my wrists or grabbed from behind with a “bearhug”.
In this photo, I “sink my weight and spread my fingers”. This is a defensive posture that would allow me to start my defense with either a painful joint lock or body throw.
Since you have two feet and there are three points on the triangle, you can move around in circles (clockwise and counter clockwise) while each step is made in a triangular pattern.
The point is that it is usually to your advantage when attacked, to not retreat or advance in a straight line. Rather, it is more efficient to step in a triangular pattern. @ Pinewood Karate

Need an activity at home for yourself or the kids? 🥋 Try this easy guide for changing karate stances and body positions!...
04/21/2020

Need an activity at home for yourself or the kids? 🥋
Try this easy guide for changing karate stances and body positions!
First make the triangle and a lesson for movements will follow.
In this lesson, we are going to make a triangle on the floor with painter’s tape. You will need a roll of 1” painter’s tape, scissors and a ruler.
Since this triangle is approximately shoulder width, the first step is to measure your back from one shoulder to the other.
In the third photo, you can see the ruler on my back to get an idea of how large the triangle should be.
Once you have that shoulder width measurement, cut your tape to make all sides of the triangle that same length.
The next step is to tape your equilateral triangle (all three sides are the same length) on the floor. It is painter’s tape so it should peel up easily when you are finished training.
Stay tuned for the movements to follow!
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Try these movements at home and tag a friend!💪Follow Follow Follow You can stretch out your karate belt to make a stra...
04/16/2020

Try these movements at home and tag a friend!💪
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You can stretch out your karate belt to make a straight line on the floor.
🦶I🦶Start on-guard with your feet on either side of your belt.
Make sure that your weight and head start out directly over your belt. I recommend that you relax and do everything very slowly. Remember, speed is a function of repetition.
It is very important to make sure you have your eyes on your imaginary opponent, chin down, hands up, elbows close to your body, hips and knees bent. Be sure to pivot the foot that is not weighted and also make sure your body weight and head move from one side of your belt to the other.
We will train with these movements together at the dojo when the Pinewood Dojo reopens.

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Knowing how to use your power lesson 3/4💪💪💪Follow Follow Follow Transferring weight across the line👇👇👇The third photo s...
04/14/2020

Knowing how to use your power lesson 3/4💪💪💪
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Transferring weight across the line
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The third photo shows that I have shifted my weight back across the line to the left and I am striking the opponent’s body with my right hand. Again, eyes on the target, chin down, guarding left hand up protecting the chin, hips and knees bent and head shifted to the left in the direction of the punch. My weight has been transferred to my left leg (full). The right heel is now up with the foot pivoting on the ball of the foot (forefoot).
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Want to know how to create tremendous power in your punch?👊🏼Tag a friend who wants to know too!💪Follow Follow Follow Tr...
04/12/2020

Want to know how to create tremendous power in your punch?👊🏼
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Transferring weight across the line
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Lesson 2/4:
I have advanced a few steps, suddenly turned my waist to my right as I shift my weight to the right. You can see that my head is on the right side of the line. In this photo, my right foot is weighted and my left foot has pivoted with the heel up. The powerful waist turn and sudden weight shift to the right, transfers tremendous power into the left hand punch. Notice that the left arm is closed (flexed) at the elbow creating a tight and more powerful left punch.
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Do you know how to use your power?🧐Want to know how? Follow for a four-part lesson!💪Tag a friend that wants to know too...
04/11/2020

Do you know how to use your power?🧐
Want to know how? Follow for a four-part lesson!💪
Tag a friend that wants to know too!
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Transferring weight across the line👇👇👇
Lesson 1/4:
I am on-guard, eyes on the opponent, my weight is in the center with my chin down, elbows in tight, hands up, hips and knees bent and right rear heel up. You can see my weight is centered and my head is directly over the line (weight and head over the centerline).
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Who has been doing some gardening or outdoor work during the quarantine?🙋🏻 Let us know in the comments below!👇The K**a i...
04/09/2020

Who has been doing some gardening or outdoor work during the quarantine?🙋🏻
Let us know in the comments below!👇
The K**a is a traditional Japanese farming implement similar to a sickle used for reaping crops and also employed as a weapon🌾
In Pinewood Karate, students train with a K**a doing actual field work; using the weapon as it was originally intended for farming🌾
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901 Trancas Street
Napa, CA
94558

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
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