Aug 28th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Getting things warmed up…
Sensei Wail started us off with a good warm up. He had us doing alternating front snap kicks and then he had us do a movement where we raise our legs up from the side like a roundhouse kick to get the hips and core warmed up.
The next movement was hard for [...]
Aug 26th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia reached a new level today. I cannot believe how hard class was and my legs were already starting to go weak before we finished the warm up.
Suicides are not a good enough description of this warm up…
Sensei had us start with suicides. Normally we do one or two but today, he had us [...]
Aug 19th, 2008 by doug in Karate Workouts
This is Sensei Noia’s first class since his wedding so it was good have him back. Congrats to him and Beth.
Sensei Noia started us up with a hard warm up again.
Hard warm ups…
He had us get a partner and one of us did squats while the other ran to the far side of the gym [...]
Aug 16th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
As of today, I think I can say that I lived through that hardest Karate class that I have had yet.
I knew it would be tough when we did the warm up…
Sensei Plocharczyk started us off with a really hard warm up. He had us get into the lunge position and had us do ten [...]
Aug 14th, 2008 by doug in Karate Workouts
Sensei Wail ran a really good class tonight.
Lots of roundhouse kicks…
We spent a lot of time working on roundhouse kicks. Sensei had us start with opening our hips up by doing roundhouse kicks from a front stance but in slow motion. We started by bringing the back leg up first, then pivoting around to the [...]
