Apr 29th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
My neck and arm felt better during this class but still not 100% but it is improving.
Ten-no-kata…
Sensei Bajic worked us hard today. We spent a good amount of the class working on ten-no-kata movements. We did the back stance with double block from Jion and then stepped into a front stance with a front punch, [...]
Apr 28th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
My left arm hasn’t improved much since the weekend and I was told that it could take about three months for my power to return. If I have any thing to do about, it will be a lot sooner than that.
The warm up wiped me out…
It was little cold in the dojo and Sensei Noia [...]
Apr 25th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
This is my first class that I took since I hurt my neck and Dr. Pusateri told me to take some time off. It is feeling better than it did before but I am having some issues with the movement and the power in my left arm. My downward block with my left arm feels [...]
Apr 16th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Kicking warm up…
We did our normal kicking warm up with front snap kicks being one of the movements. This time, Sensei Cieplik made a comment when I was doing my kicks, he said to bring my knee up before I let my kick go. Even though Sensei has said this many times in the past, [...]
Apr 15th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei DiPasquale really covers a lot of Karate in his class.
Get it started…
Sensei had us start in a stationary front stance with reverse punch but with our partner holding our leg to make sure that we keep our stance low and our knee in the correct position. We spent a long time in that stance [...]
