Oct 31st, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia gave us another one of the those really hard classes again. It was very appropriate on Halloween and scary enough to make me wonder if I could finish it.
Sensei had us start with a very quick warm up. We ran back and forth across the gym five times and shuffled back and forth [...]
Oct 30th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Exceptional is the only word to use to describe this class.
So many little things to help make our Karate better…
Sensei Cieplik gave us so many bits of good information, I am hoping that I can list all of them here;
Higher belts need to apply their knowledge to the lower belt kata’s.
At the end of the [...]
Oct 28th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia is trying to help us prepare for our upcoming tests and I believe that workouts like these will certainly help but I hope I can live to tell about it. This class was one of the harder ones that I remember and it was one of the first times in a long while [...]
Oct 27th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Before I get into the information about my class, I need to rant.
For about the last 30 minutes of class, Sensei Brien had us work on anchorman drills. This drill has one person standing in front of the group, then each person comes in and throws a single attack and the anchorman has to block [...]
Oct 25th, 2008 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Plocharczyk had us do an excellent warm up that I always like. We started doing Kata from Heian Shodan all the way to our own belt kata, Bassai Dai for me. And once we got to our own kata, we just kept doing it until everyone else finished.
Kicking is fun when you can do [...]
