Kalari training: kicks and steps

The video presents some elements of kalari practice done as the first part of our training at Studio Kalari, both in-person and during online classes (sometimes modified due to small space).
Exercises covered in the video are:
1. Kicks: straight kick (ner kaal), round kick (otta kal), cross kick (kone kaal), double kick (tirichu kaal), kick-sit-turn (irutti kaal).
2. Sliding lunges (neeki theruthu, neeki ammarnnu) and squating (kai kuttu nokku).
3. Sequences with animal postures (lion and wild boar; elephant).
Each line ends up with a transition to keep the continuous flow and develop stamina.
Each exercise is done in the video once but during a training, we repeat them many times. Traditionally students in Kerala would even do just the straight kicks for months before a master would teach them next element.
Progress is usually a slow and long process as it takes place on many levels: breath control, strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, speed, concentration and stamina to name a few.
When new student come, we do not require any of these features from them right from the beginning - they come to learn and not to perform. If a person is really interested in practice and continues it regularly, they will slowly develop their skills. These exercises are so complex that there is always something to discover and work on.
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Studio Kalari is a school of the Southern style of kalarippayattu run by Justyna Rodzińska-Nair (Poland) and Sankar Sivasankaran Nair (India). Studio offers:
- regular in-person classes (in Wroclaw, Poland): www.studiokalari.pl/en/schedu...
- online trainings: www.studiokalari.pl/en/traini...
- few-day workshops in and few-week winter retreats (at the Studio's school in Trivandrum, India): www.studiokalari.pl/en/worksh...
- blog on kalarippayattu: www.studiokalari.pl/en/blog-e...
For more please visit studiokalari.pl.

[@MeHowBeatz]

Thank you for this and all the materials you've shared so far! :)) Absolutely amazing and unbelievably helpful, especially as I'm currently searching for as many training options as I can - I can easily see so many universal principles here, which can be found in other arts as well, and are so important - this is gold! :D #omg I will definitely learn so much from your great yt channel, thank you! :))

[@studiokalari]

Thanks and dzięki :-) This is just a short presentation and not a tutorial (to be done later) so be careful when applying certain moves in your practice. All the best!

[@MeHowBeatz]

Sure thing 👍I will be super careful & patient, as I want to learn the safe & proper way, to have a long & healthy practice :)) All the best to you too 🙂Dziękuję 🙂🙏