Nov 24th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Have you ever had a class where you worked so hard you thought your legs were going to fall off? Today was one of those days. Luckily, my legs didn’t fall off but it was close!
Even the warm up was hard…
Sensei Noia has us start running from quarter line to quarter line and then doing [...]
Nov 23rd, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Brien had us work on our exam preparation again.
Work on what you need to fix…
This was an interesting class today. Sensei Brien had us work on some kicking drills as other kihon for a warm up but then he had us do something very different. Sensei told us to work on kihon that we [...]
Nov 19th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik made a really interesting point today. He said that if you stop, there has to be a reason. The point he was making is that if there is a pause in a kata, there is reason for it. The concept is deeper than those few words but it could mean that your opponent [...]
Nov 17th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia packed a lot of work into this class today. I can hardly remember all of the drills that we worked on but I will do my best. We started our warm ups running and shuffling from one line to another.
Horse stance with your partner and then the band came in….
We started out in [...]
Nov 16th, 2009 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Brien had us start out in a horse stance with many punches and blocks to get warmed up.
Functional kata basics….
I cannot really describe this any better way than I did above. Sensei had us do various moves from various kata’s. For example, we worked on:
Back stance with front snap kick and spear hand.
Front stance [...]
