Mar 31st, 2009 by doug in Karate Workouts
Kata warm up…
Sensei Noia has us start with kata from Heian Shodan all the way to Tekki Shodan. After we did those, Sensei had us do one of the Heian katas, except Heian Shodadn, of our choice but the catch was that we had to do it mirror image. I picked Heian Yondan and oddly [...]
Mar 28th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Gatch gave us a simple class today but it was one of those classes that felt very productive.
Kihon…
Sensei had us start with some simple kihon. We started with left foot forward front stance. From their he had us reach with our front hand and throw a reverse punch without stepping. This was to have [...]
Mar 26th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik had us work on some old and new drills today.
Basics…
We did the normal warm up and common kihon drills and then we got in to some new drills. We stood in a front stance, did a front leg front snap kick followed with a rear leg knee strike and front snap kick. The [...]
Mar 24th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Excellent class. This type of class is one of my favorites and I would be happy doing these more often.
Kata…
For our warm up, Sensei noia had us start with Heian Shodan and work our way up to our own belt level kata. He had us keep doing our kata until the black belts finished all [...]
Mar 21st, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
For almost two weeks, I have been fighting a cold or flu of some sort. Because of this, I haven’t been posting much here since I haven’t taken many classes.
Today was my first day back at class in a week and I could only make it half way through before I had to stop. My [...]
