Sep 29th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Today was one of the best classes that I have had!
Sensei Noia took all of the 4th Kyu’s and had us work on our kata for the entire class. He took us through each and every move, telling us not only how to do it but how to make it great. We started in the [...]
Sep 28th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
We started class with a quick warm up. The gym was really cold for some reason and I was having a very hard time getting any sweat going even though I was really moving around.
Sensei Noia split us up in to groups. He took the brown and black belts and Sensei Gatch took the rest [...]
Sep 27th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
We went through a lot of things in this class.
We started with the normal warm up of kicks and then got in to it.
Sensei had us work on front snap kicks but with extra attention to putting the rear leg down. He had us put the rear leg down fast and hard, without slamming [...]
Sep 25th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Class was much like Saturday’s class.
We spent a great deal of time working on stance training again. We started with drills where our partner puts their belt around our waist and pulls us from behind while we move forward in front stances. I am pushing much harder from my hips instead of [...]
Sep 23rd, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Excellent class!
We spent the entire class working on our footwork with attention to keeping our feet in the right place when moving forward. We started with a simple moving forward front punch while our partner watched our front foot. The goal of the drill was to keep our front foot from moving as [...]
