Jan 29th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class, Things to fix
Have you ever worked so hard in class that you had both a headache and stomach ache? If you haven’t experienced that wonderful feeling, you don’t know what you are missing. More about that later.
We started class with a longer warm up and stretch, which felt pretty good.
Sensei Noia split everyone into groups. [...]
Jan 26th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Today was a good class.
I always like doing kihon and we haven’t done too much of it, except on Thursday classes, since we tested. We started out with very slow motion, rising block with reverse punch. We did the moves slowly to make sure that our technique was corret. After a few [...]
Jan 25th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Class was hard physically but ever harder mentally.
Sensei Noia broke us up into groups. He took the black belts and Sensei Gatch took everyone else below black belt. We put on our pads and started working on sparring drills.
Instead of doing the normal back and forth, shift in and out type drills, Sensei Gatch had [...]
Jan 22nd, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Before we left for class, I wanted to do some kata at home. I started with one each of Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Yondan, Heian Godan, Tekki Shodan and Jion. Next, I broke Heian Shodan into sections and did each group of moves with full power and speed. I [...]
Jan 19th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Gatch and Sensei Plocharczyk gave us a little of everything in our class today.
We started with kata. Sensei Gatch broke up the class into groups and Sensei Plocharczyk ended up with the purple and brown belts. We started with Heian Yondan, then Heian Godan, then Tekki Shodan and then Jion. I have some things [...]
