Feb 29th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia had us work on some different sparring drills. We started out with doing something that was similar to one-step and three step sparring combined.
We started moving forward with a jodan punch at our partner, they did a rising block and blocked. Next we did a chudan punch and they blocked with an inward [...]
Feb 28th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Really good class.
We started out a good warm up. Front snap kicks to the front, front snap kick and back kick combinations and front snap kick with side thrust kick to the front.
Sensei Cieplik had us do the last warm up movement a little different way tonight, not different in the sense of new [...]
Feb 26th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
This was a very hard class.
Sensei Noia had us a different warm up. We started by jogging back and forth across the gym. Next came shuffling back and forth. Then jogging forward trying to kick our butts with our feet. side kicks in circles. I think we did each movement at least four times across [...]
Feb 23rd, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Today, Sensei Gatch was away at a tournament in Florida so Sensei Plocharczyk trained us.
We started out with some partner sparring drills. The first drill was some simple shift in, jab and reverse punch and then shift out movements. Next we did the same thing but as we moved out, our partner tried to counter [...]
Feb 22nd, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
This was one of the harder classes that I recall in some time. This wasn’t so much mentally hard but it was physically hard.
Sensei Noia had all of us get a pad. We put the pad on the floor, knelt down and then put our left knee on it. From this position, we stood up [...]
