Didi Goodman Kids' Karate Workbook Review

The Kids' Karate Workbook: A Take-Home Training Guide for Young Martial Artists by Didi Goodman is an important book which can be used by youngsters, to boost up their training in karate.

Based on her experience of more than 20 years in teaching martial arts to children, Goodman offers a systematic course of study tracing a system to follow by a first day beginner to an intermediate level student.

On its course, kids learn about uniforms and about the conventional rules of courtesy and they can practice the strikes, kicks, blocks and forms most often used in martial arts science. The specified course of study is most helpful for the children to act on one another, allows them to answer questions and solving difficult tasks.

Goodman points out the common mistakes to avoid answering frequently asked questions and imparts deep knowledge of martial arts in them. The book is very easy to understand and it illustrates 150 of her own students experience in their own words which proves they are serious martial artists.

Even though the book is written for children it is very helpful to parents who assist their kids at home and to instructors who teach children.

Didi Goodman founded a school named Cuong Nhu Redwood Dojo in 1992 in Oakland, California and she acts as the chief instructor to that.

She has got an experience of more than 30 years and she teaches it to adults and children for more than 20 years. She is a holder of the rank of godan (5th degree black belt) in Kuong Nhu Karate, a Vietnamese martial arts which is a mixture of hard and soft methods drawn from various Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese systems.

Before joining Kuong Nhu, she has been training for many years in Tae Kwon Do and aikido. Her earlier martial arts training consists of the style of wuying mu karate under an instructor named Pauline Short who was a pioneer in women’s martial arts in U.S.

Besides Dojo Didi, Goodman is a writer and poet. Her work has published in many periodicals. For ex: learning from children, five easy lessons for teachers, which appears in the book martial arts teachers on training which was edited by Carol Wilay (North Atlantic Books).

Her views were narrated in sharp spear /crystal mirror/martial arts in women’s lives by Stephanee Hoppe (Park Street Press) and an interview with her appeared on the martial arts web site Martial Edge in 2006.

Kids' Karate Workbook imparts a perfect balancing between particular techniques and general practicing conditions. All these meant for grade school kids.

The book reveals the creams of good practicing and the main points of martial arts principles presenting them in good teaching method which both kids and parents can comprehend. This system is very useful in Karate, Tae Kwon Do or mixed martial arts school.

Kids can easily understand the difference between these types by reading the adjunct. Goodman actually does not have any desire to write these, knowing he could not give any credit to the job done by Sensei Didi and company.

Sensei Didi also have done an excellent job. The author puzzles to decide how many numbers she would order to get some bulk discount hoping that her students and parents would surely agree with her.

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