I am part of a karate group and I`m trying to make it a bit more exciting for them.?

Show them "who am i" movie there is jakie chan and he is a very very very very very good fighter in this movie

Take advantage of the surrounding community. Take a class outside in a park once in a while. Make some of the drills more realistic by having a street cloths day and see the difference in trying to do some of the moves in our everyday restrictive clothes. Add some drills to increase awareness of surroundings such as have them leave the room and you change something than see who can notice the change first.

Have them scan the parking lot once for about 1 to 2 seconds and tell you how many people are in it. As they get better ask them for descriptions of the people in the parking lot. Older students and younger students can benefit from these. Instead of the typical stretches after a work out introduce some Ti Che everyone can benefit and enjoys these.

I liked the arson suggestion and the weapons training, thirdly I liked the competition thing. So how about

1. setting the building on fire, door locked of course

2. the students have to use weapons to get the only key from the grumpy caretaker who no-one can every find when he is needed anyway

3. the winner has the prize of living to fight another day

Plus the free media advertising that your club would receive, bet it would be at national level! Try splitting the class into abilities, more games for the children, more science and real scenarios for the adults. If that does not help hope it at least made you laugh

Competition is good because it gives everyone something to train for and takes them outside the grading syllabus. Also courses with other instructors, It is amazing how the penny will drop on something when it is taught in a slightly different manner.

For club nights you could split everyone into threes (or more) and get them to practice team kata or come up with their own bunkai to a kata. Then give demos to the rest of the class.

Bring them out to nature and practice in the open space. Practice the forward punch and kicks going downhill then run/jog up again. Submerged in sea and practice kata sets. These are just some ideas.

Alternative, you can introduce indoors sensitivity training by doing Kata and set sparring blindfolded. If you know experts from other ryu or style, it would be good to bring them in to do workshops or short introductory courses.

Nothing speed the learning process like fresh stimulants. Godspeed!

It would help if you told us what you were doing for them already.

I find that regular competions can help. They don't have to be the formal all day ones. Just simple ones at the club, testing kata, stances, best technique etc.

Also try adding obstacles to their sparring e.g. you can only use one leg for kicking, one side can only kick while the other side can only punch, jumping techniques only, two on one.

And my favourite way to spice up a session is a bit of weapons training.

go jogging outside, or have an outside class,add in some horse stance training while balancing cups on their heads for 5 min. great leg workout out, do some stance training which involves othe student s tugging on eachother in a controlled manner to train being rooted, and try meditation before every class

why are people suggesting japanese weapons and other mmatrial arts exercises (who am i, jackie chan uses kung fu. a katana is a live weapon, the equivalent is a bokken used in KENDO not KARATE)

an instructor i used to know would always start by throwing him self off the second floor on to the mats 1" thick on the ground floor and land on his back lol

Set fire to the building and see how quick theycan all get out - give a prize to the first to leave. Lock all the doors first as a further test of their skills.

Use the bo staff or the Katana I love those! Good luck!