Jan 31st, 2009 by doug in Karate Workouts
Sensei Plocharczyk had us work on some contact drills.
Hit the pad…
I have always felt that we do not hit thing enough and Sensei Plocharczyk felt the same way today. We spent the entire class hitting pads with a partner.
We started with simple drills like reverse punch. Next we worked on using the outside edge of [...]
Jan 29th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
I can honestly say that the classes with Sensei Cieplik are always excellent but tonight was above and beyond.
It’s electric…
The entire class felt electric. Every part of class felt just right even though it was a really hard class overall.
Sensei Cieplik had us start with an extended kicking warm up because the dojo was very [...]
Jan 26th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
This was an excellent class. Sensei Brien covered all basics and I really enjoyed it.
Basic and Kumite kihon…
This was a good drill. We started with moving forward reverse punch in a low stance and making sure that we were grounded. Next, we did the kumite version using a shorter stance and not paying extra attention [...]
Jan 24th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Plocharczyk gave us some old standard sparring drills and a couple drills that I have never done before.
Timing is everything…
We started out with some simple sparring drills. The first drill was shift in and try to reverse punch our partner while they block. The next drill was shift in and attack and our partner [...]
Jan 22nd, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik had us start with a lot kicks for our warm up. It is normally cold in the dojo so the extra kicks do help getting our body temperature up. He often gives us some interesting combination’s and today’s special group was front snap kick, back kick, roundhouse kick, hook kick and front snap [...]
