Aug 31st, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Since this was the last class of the session, Sensei Brien let us spend the entire class working on a couple of self defense drills.
WARNING – what I am typing below is real life and you must use your head if you are ever involved in a threatening situation. Always use your head and if [...]
Aug 27th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
After our warm up, Sensei Cieplik had us start class with some kihon doing normal block and strike combinations along with some kicking drills.
Fast Kihon…
We moved through our kihon drills really fast. Sensei had us start moving forward and back doing rising block with reverse punch, downward block with reverse punch, inward block with reverse [...]
Aug 20th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
This was a fun class. Sensei Cieplik had us do things that he said we don’t often do.
Mentally challenging….
We did the normal warm up with our kicks and then moved right into our kihon drills.
Sensei wanted us to work on things that we normally don’t do.
We started moving forward and back in a back stance [...]
Aug 18th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
After five years, I believed that the hardest classes were behind me. I thought that since I was this far along I could take any type of punishment after some of the classes that I had in the past. We can throw that idea out the window. Sensei Noia gave us one of the hardest, [...]
Aug 17th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Brien had us work on sparring basics today.
Block and counter….
We spent much of the class working on basic block and counter drills. Our partner would shift in, reverse punch and then shift out. As they threw reverse punch and started shifting out we would throw a roundhouse kick.
We also worked on the same type [...]
