Jun 29th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Classes were hard!
We started the first class with kata for a warmup. We did all of the Heian kata and we did our own kata twice so I did Tekki Shodan.
We spent a lot of time working on sparring drills. We did anchor man drills which gave everyone a chance to score against each other.
The [...]
Jun 28th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
I spent about 30 minutes warming up before class. I did my usual stretches and it did seem to help my kicks.
Class started with the normal warm up kicks. After that, we did our basics but instead of doing them in the normal five moves with the left leg forward and then five [...]
Jun 27th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
I did a quick workout. My hips were sore from stretching for a long time before class yesterday and from all the kicks that we did in class.
Side leg raises – 15
Slow side thrust kicks – 15
Bent side leg raise – 15
The bent side leg raise was suggestion from my Sensei. He told me get [...]
Jun 26th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Very hard class.
We spent most the class working on kicks. We warmed by front snap kicking our partner. Then we did double front snap kicks, then double front snap kicks followed with a roundhouse. Then we did tripple roundhouse kicks at different heights. First kick was at knee level, second was at belt of higher [...]
Jun 25th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
More to come……
