Lost in space – 9/30/08 – Tuesday Karate class
I am having a hard time even describing this class. I was lost in space and even though I could move fairly well, my head was somewhere in the clouds.
It was all downhill from the start…
Sensei Noia has us spend most of the class working on sparring distance drills. We got a partner and started to work on simple movements like shift in, attack and shift out when our partner gets the right distance away from us.
We have done this drill many times in the past but for some reason, most of the class couldn’t get it. We were starting too close and even doing simple things like spreading apart, so that we did not run into each other, was hard to do for most of us.
Kata with and without movement…
Kata went better than sparring, at least for me. Sensei Noia had us do our kata without using our legs meaning we did only the hand movements. That was kind of neat but we have done that before.
Next, Sensei had us close our eyes and we did the kata in our head without moving our bodies. Even though we didn’t move, we had to breath as if we were doing our with moves.
The last kata drill was done sitting on the floor. We were able to the hand movements but with no legs.
I am glad that the kata part of class went better than the sparring drills.
Sparring drills – 9/29/08 – Monday Karate class
Sensei Brien gave us a little different class. We normally work on kihon and kata but tonight he had us working on some sparring drills.
It’s all in the angles…
For this drill, we got a partner. We both stood in a front stance, we then shifted straight in with reverse punch then shifted out, we then shifted in again but shifted out on the left angle, and then we shifted in again and out on the right angle. Our parter had to counter the first and second attack with a back leg roundhouse kick and then the third attack with a front leg roundhouse kick based on the direction we shifted out on.
We then did the same move but our partner could add a single or double counter attack.
Keep that hand up and use it…
Next, we stood in a ready stance but with our left hand up in front of our face. Our partner then shifted in and threw a jodan or chudan punch and we had to shift back and block it. This was a really cool drill and almost any hand attack that our partners threw was easily blocked or at least redirected away.
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