Jan 28th, 2010 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik worked us hard today. We spent a good amount of time working from our core.
Turn the body with the core, not the chest…
After our warm up, Sensei had us start in a left foot forward front stance. From there, we did a rear leg front snap kick, we then blocked with the same [...]
Jan 26th, 2010 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia had us work on kata specific kihon today.
Warm up with some kata…
We started with our own kata first. Next we did the first five moves of every kata that we knew in succession. When we finished the first kata, we moved right into the next kata.
Stances and kihon…
For the next drills, we got [...]
Jan 21st, 2010 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Cieplik spent a lot of time working on various kihon movements today. If our kihon improves our kata will improve too.
Strike with the leg….
We finished the normal warm up and moved into knee strike follow with front snap kick. After that, we did front snap kick with front punch. Sensei noticed that many people [...]
Jan 19th, 2010 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Noia is getting us back into sparring mode. He is having us work on our sparring basics since we haven’t done much sparring over the last few months.
Kicks or punches….
Sensei had us work on some different drills that I do not remember doing much in the past. We started with one partner attacking with [...]
Jan 15th, 2010 by doug in Karate Class
Sensei Brien had gave us a serious core workout today.
Kick and turn….
After a good warm up, Sensei had us start working on improving our core. We started in a horse stance across from a partner. From there one partner punched and the other blocked.
Next, class got a lot harder. We did a front snap kick, [...]
