Jul 24th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia had us spend our class working on some shifting drills today.
Shifting the correct way….
One thing I always like about Sensei Noia’s classes, similar to Sensei Cieplik’s classes is that he watches how good or bad we do particular movements at the start of class and adjusts the rest of the class based on [...]
Jul 23rd, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik had us work on some basic kihon but with extra attention to the hips.
Hips over heels….
After our warm up, Sensei had us do a few basic movements then had us modify then to get the hips more involved. We started with our hands on our hips, then move forward into cat stance, then [...]
Jul 20th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
This was a really good class tonight. Sensei Brien had us work on some of the mental aspects of our Karate.
Kihon….
Sensei had us start with some basics. We did standing up with front punch, moving forward and back with front punch, moving forward and back with various blocks and reverse punch and moving froward and [...]
Jul 17th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia wanted us to work on some shifting basics today.
The band Elwood, the band….
We started with a partner and an elastic band. We faced other while one partner held the handles and the other wrapped the band around our waist. From the point, the partner with band around their waist would shift backward [...]
Jul 16th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Today, Sensei Cieplik has us work on keeping connection with our heels when doing our movements.
Turn on the heels and push from the hips…
We started class with the normal warm up and then started doing some basic kihon drills.
Early in the class, we started working on Heian Shodan but with extra attention to our turns. [...]
