Sep 30th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia gave us a hard class today. I don’t remember sparring this much in a long time.
Anchorman….
We started class with a few minutes of free sparring to get warmed up. Next, we lined up for Anchorman. Oddly enough, I was more at ease this time than in the past. I just went up there [...]
Sep 28th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Brien had us work on our examination preparation. Exam time is right around the corner and Sensei wants to make sure that we are prepared.
20+ minutes of really hard work….
Sensei had us go through the entire kihon part of our exam. It included the following:
Horse stance with front punch, double punch and rising block.
Moving [...]
Sep 24th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik shared some Karate details with us tonight.
Use the hips….
Sensei had us work on a different kicking drill tonight. He had us stand in a ready stance, put on foot forward, much like a cat stance, push our hips forward and tighten our glutes as if we were doing a front snap kick. Next, [...]
Sep 22nd, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Very hard class today. Sensei Noia not only made the class physically hard, it was mentally hard for me.
Get your pads on….
Sensei Noia gave us an interesting warm up tonight. After we bowed in, he had us get our pads on and get a partner. He then had us do about five minutes of free [...]
Sep 17th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Another excellent class. A lot of learning and a lot of energy was what Sensei Cieplik gave us today.
Common kihon…
Sensei had us work on many of our common kihon movements but also a couple that we don’t work on too often.
As part of our warm up drill, we do a movement that starts with our [...]
