Oct 30th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Class was much like our class on Saturday.
We spent most of the time working on the kihon for our upcoming test.
I had a little harder time for some reason and had to get a drink about 30 minutes into the class. My throat felt like it was full of cotton balls for some reason. On [...]
Oct 29th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
Good workout!
8 – Tekki Shodan
2 x 15 – weighted side bends with 20 pound dumbbells.
2 x 12 – Glute bridge (3 second hold for each rep)
2 x 12 – lying side leg raises (3 second hold for each rep)
On my last two Tekki Shodan again, I held my horse stance while just working on the [...]
Oct 28th, 2007 by doug in Karate Workouts
My hips were still sore from the last three days classes but I ended up starting out slowly and working up in speed and power as I did each kata.
10 – Tekki Shodan
1 – Heian Shodan
1 – Heian Nidan
1 – Heian Sandan
1 – Heian Yondan
1 – Heian Godan
2 x 15 – weighted side bends with [...]
Oct 27th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Great class but extremely hard.
Sensei Noia has been preparing us for our upcoming rank testing by having us do all of the moves from our test. The difference is that we do many more repetitions in class than we do at our test. This really taxes my endurance more than anything else and [...]
Oct 26th, 2007 by doug in Karate Class
Hard class!
We did a lot of sparring drills. We spent almost the entire class working on go-no-sen. Go-n0-sen, as we practiced in class, was where our parnter would shift in and attack, we would shift back so that they could not finish their attack or miss and then as they moved back out, we would [...]
