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Ten-no-kata and a guest Sensei – 8/7/08 – Thursday Karate class - 07 Aug 2008
Tonight, we had a guest sensei, Dr. David Renner. Dr. Renner is a chiropractor, who works with Dr. Pusiteri, who is my chiropractor, and he likes to apply Applied Kinesiology to Karate when possible.
Warm up…
Horse stance with punches and rising blocks to get the blood flowing. We have been doing this more and more as [...]
Hand, not wrist, on your hip – 7/24/08 – Thursday Karate class. - 24 Jul 2008
Moving forward with reverse punch…
After our warm, Sensei Cieplik had us work on moving forward with reverse punch. Most of us are used to doing moving forward with front punch so this takes a little more mental focus than physical. He had us do the movement slowly at first, then we did four steps slowly, [...]
Saturday Karate Class – 5/24/08 – Hitting the pads. - 23 May 2008
What a great class.
Even before class was excellent. I was able to spend a little time talking to Sensei Plocharczyk about Karate. He gave me some excellent insight.
He made a comment about taking Sensei Cieplik’s class one day. During that class he tried to do his best Karate and Sensei walked up to him and [...]
Thursday Karate class – 4/17/08 – Good class but painful. - 17 Apr 2008
I guess the title is a little deceiving. What we did in class is what I would normally call painful but because of my ribs, it was.
We started our normal warm up and Sensei noticed right away that my kicks were off. My foot was not too sore but bad enought to throw off [...]
Thursday Karate class – 3/13/08 – With the body. - 13 Mar 2008
Sensei Cieplik has us do the normal warmup with our kicks and other movements. Sensei told me to do one of my combination kicks a little differently. Instead of doing each move of the front snap kick, side thrust kick, back kick and roundhouse kick as separate movements, he said to use the [...]
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