May 31st, 2007 by doug in Karate Notes!
My Sensei often told me that there are five moves to the moving forward front punch and only two of them are related to the upper body.
First is the punch, next is the elbow strike, then comes the shin clash, next is driving from the back leg (or guarded back leg) and then finally the [...]
May 31st, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
One each of Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Yondan, Heian Godan and Tekki Shodan. (6 total)
Weights:
15 minutes (superset)
Leg press toe raise - 12 x 360 x 5
Dumbbell wrist curl – 12 x 20 x 5
Crunch – 10 x 5
Stiffleg dumbbell deadlift – 10 x 45 x 5
No Karate class today. My [...]
May 30th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Good workout tonight.
The gym was very warm and it felt good to workout in the higher temperature. I had to be near 80 degrees but there was a lot of air movement. The EDT workout is hard but feels good. Racing the clock really helps me keep my mind off the pain from the exercises.
15 [...]
May 29th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Good class.
We spent a little time warming up and then split up in to testing and done testing groups.
We spent a good amount of time working on basic stance training. Now that most of the people that still need to test are all 5th kyu or above, the examiners are looking more closely at our [...]
May 26th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Class was good and we spent most of it working on some basics and kata. We started out doing all katas from Heian Shodan to what we knew and it really warmed me up.
Our Sensei broke the poeple who needed to test in to a seperate group to help us prepare. It was good to [...]
