Aug 30th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Class was tough.
Many basics and a lot of kicks. We did more kicks than usual for some reason. Doing the kicks was good for me since I wanted to see how my hips were working and although I was able to kick higher, they are not spectacular. I know that it’s going [...]
Aug 28th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Good class!
We started with some punching drills. We paired up with a partner and did reverse punches to the pads. We then shifted to the right and hit a new partner, first with a right hand reverse punch and then a left hand reverse punch. Next, we did the same drill but [...]
Aug 25th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Since I only took one class on Friday, I wanted to make it up on Saturday.
We spent most of the class working on sparring drills. We started shifting in throwing reverse punches at our partner to get warmed up. After that, we shifted in. threw a jodan reverse punch, shifted out and back in and [...]
Aug 24th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
I only took one class since I didn’t want to push my hips too much after my chiropractic session with Dr. Pusateri earlier today.
I did end up doing one of the drills in the earlier class where our partner would hold a pad at belt level, we did a very slow side thrust kick and [...]
Aug 24th, 2007 by doug in Special Events
After months, or years, of not being able to throw good side kicks, Sensei Noia suggested that I go see the team chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Pusateri.
I was really nervous about going since I have heard horror stories from others about going to chiropractors but since Sensei Noia said he was good and knowing that all [...]
