Elisa Au (USA): Secrets from champions

It is not an other only beautiful one visino that kata executes magnificent, or better is also that one. Three times champion of the kumite World of to the inside of the World karate federation (Wkf) that it is the single organization to the World recognized from the International olympic committee (Ioc). The Wkf has 173 Countries members

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It makes part of the new generation of young people grown in the dojo. It has begun to Honolulu, when it had 5 years, with the master of karate shito ryu Chuzo Kotaka, same he a national champion of karate in Japan in 1962. For vent' years the result has been trained six days to week and here: one young intelligent woman, of talent, very educated, in perfect shape that ago honor to the martial limbs. E' a model for all the young women and of fact for all the karateka. Grown in a dojo of karate traditional Japanese, many forts have bases and a solid one kata, but from always eccelle in the sparring.
"I amuse myself equally is with the kata one that with the kumite ones, but it is in this last one that I have always shone" Elisa says. In more recent the Wkf competition, to Monterrey, in Mexico, it has not only gained a medal of gold in its category of weight, but it has gained also the open, in which girls competed also with the double quantity of its weight. Elisa hung 56 kg for 1,65 m and i on i 56 kg is all tonic muscles, sight its impeccable shape. The question to which we try to answer is that what renders it various from the rest of the athletes.
"Task that my physicist is made for the combat and that the training whom I have made is of prim' order. The will joined to an excellent guide is the secret of my happened one "says Elisa. As athlete of tip of the kumite ones has been able to attend the Springs Colorado olympic training center, where she has received some between the best training in the world of the fitness and the physical conditioning. "the instructions of sensei Kotaka have been optimal and its personal guide has indeed made the difference. Moreover I could have approached the olympic structures where I have learned indeed a lot on the training and the athletic preparation thought specifically for the karate ones ".
To the demand to explain itself better it has answered: "Beh, as an example after to have seen us to fight the olympic instructors and trainers they have observed that our sport somigliava a lot to the skating of speed of the short track and the velocisti to the summery Olympic Games. Therefore I have taken various of their principles of training and I have applies them you to the karate ones. And this has made the difference indeed in my case. As an example the hops on a single leg that we make have been resumed from the American skater medal of olympic gold in short track the Apollo Ono, cha have of the indeed exceptional legs in order to take the push to the beginning of the race, a movement much similar one to that explosive that us servants when we must attack in combat. We use also the same principles you follow yourself from the velocisti to the departure of a sprint, when they are launch in ahead and they are raised from the position accovacciata on the blocks in order to leave with the race. Two technical examples delle of training are alone that we adopted nelle olympic structures is to Springs Colorado that to Lake Placid.
"With approximating itself of the season of contests my training changes. I make race longer, rather than the releases on the 40 yards, make sprint of 400, so as to to train my resistance, an anaerobic exercise. When I beginning from train for one specific contest of usual increase the intensity of my training three months before the event. To that point my training is of aerobico type with short sprint that they prepare to me for outbreaks of energy rather than to the resistance on the long distances. Of usual I train for three hours to the day, dedicating half of the time to the athletic preparation and the other half to the combat and the techniques ".
The master of Elisa, sensei Chuzo Kotaka, has become one of the greatest trainers than champions whom the karate ones traditional he has never had. We have asked as it is successful sfornare excellent combatant as Elisa and its son George Kotaka. "the more important aspect in preparing a succeeding athlete of is a training consisting and high-quality. My students train themselves seriously, always holding in mind theirs object to you. In this way they strain themselves always to the maximum in order to catch up the happened one. Task also that, in quality of they trainer, I must always try to maintain one opened mind to new developments. Growing in Japan they have been trained al karate in a sure way, but when I see the techniques new that George proposes ai its students I recognize their quality. They are aware of the fact that the sport is in continuous increase and, in order to make so that my students are always to concern to us, I must pormi anch' I like innovator in my sport ". Elisa hour travels all over the world, has been in Italy, in Japan, in Canada, in England, Scozia and in many other Countries are in order to compete that in order to hold seminaries. Only this year as an example has in agenda seminaries in the USA, Japan and Australia. All until june, when it decides if to participate and therefore to prepare itself for It samples you of the Wkf World in Finland. Of recent it has been to Hollywood in order to turn a series of dvd entitles the secrets to you of Elisa Au for karate from championship. They will be five volumes: on training, stretching and athletic preparation, on the kata one of base, an other on the kata one is left over to you, more two on the combat, one for principianti and one for black belts.
Elisa also is graduated in Civil engineering to the University of the Hawaii, to Manoa, and hour works more like planner for one of the rinomate companies of construction of the Hawaii: the Nan Inc.
Its dreams for the future are to continue to travel and to see the World through the karate ones and invite all to contact it for email: elisa.au@elisaau.com and to visit its situated Internet: www.elisaau.com.

Preferred technique: fist counterattack
preferred Film: Coming to America
Profession: civil engineer
Years of training: 20 Style: shito ryu karate
Master: Chuzo Kotaka Marital status: single, in it tries of the just man more prestigious
Prizes: 3 tito them world-wide ones Wkf
Object to you: to see all the World before trent' the Dojo years: International karate federation school of champions of Honolulu, Hawaii. More serious accident: distortion to the ankle in the 2002
Degree: 6° dan my hero: my parents. They are the best ones!
Preferred musical kind: the groups of the past like Beach Boys, Supremes and the songs of Madonna of the years the Eighty
my better friends: mine 8 better friends of the advanced schools