Partner acrobatics, rhythm, kicks, presentation, landing mechanics, and explosive dance movement for the Personal Movement Atlas.

Practical movement bag setup for karate, dance, swimming, tumbling extras, and the everyday movement notebook kit.

A reference and practical training branch for posture, alignment, rhythm, leg control, foot articulation, precision, and kata presentation.

Theory and progression-awareness branch for tumbling shapes, inversions, cartwheels, round-offs, walkovers, handsprings, saltos, twists, and safe skill linking.

Blancke Academy is the main reference club for this notebook. The academy presents itself as a Brussels karate club founded in 1970, with dojos in Uccle, Strombeek, and the European Commission.

Blancke lists the five Shotokan Dojo Kun:

Use this section for belt targets, syllabus requirements, corrections, and exam notes.

Judo and BJJ as supporting lenses for karate: balance, grips, throws, groundwork, control, escapes, submissions, and kata bunkai questions.

Gymnastics as a reference lens for body control, alignment, shapes, tension, balance, landing mechanics, and spatial awareness.

Use this as a glossary for counting, commands, techniques, levels, directions, stances, and training concepts.

Shotokan Karate is a Japanese karate style associated with Gichin Funakoshi, often described as the father of modern karate.

Kata are formal patterns. Use this section for embusen, rhythm, bunkai ideas, video references, personal corrections, and practice logs.

Kickboxing as a reference lens for combinations, guard, rhythm, pressure, footwork, defence, low kicks, and continuous striking logic.

Kihon is basics: the repeated technical foundation of karate.

Kumite is partner work and sparring. Blancke defines kumite as training against one or more adversaries using techniques learned from kata and kihon.

Natural human movement patterns as reference knowledge for martial arts posture, stance, mobility, coordination, balance, and transitions.

Curated movement reading shelf for Shotokan, kata, judo, BJJ, primal movement, gymnastics, kickboxing, ballet, swimming, acrobatics, cheer tumbling, and yoga side knowledge.

See also: Reading list for the wider curated movement studies shelf.

A fixed reading and note-taking sequence for Shotokan theory, etiquette, terminology, history, kata, kumite, grading, and personal synthesis.

Aquatic movement reference for breath, relaxation, horizontal body line, rhythm, whole-body coordination, and efficiency.

Use short dated entries. Keep class notes practical.

Breath, attention, mobility, flexibility, balance, relaxation, recovery, and slow controlled transitions for the Personal Movement Atlas.