Monday, September 26, 2005 Karate Training, Karate Boxing, Karate Sparring – Highlands Ranch, Co The adult 7:00pm class was Form training and sparring. Forms were to be performed in front of a small group of peers. I switched from Two-Man Fist Set to Pinan 4 but now at this late stage in the game, I [...]
Wednesday, September 21 Self Defense Training, Kick Boxing, Cardio Workouts – Denver, Colorado Tonight’s class was centered on learning how to “slip” and “counter” a striking opponent. After warm-ups, we paired off and did one-for-one feigning with a strike to the face or chest and then positioning your feet to do a spinning back-kick to [...]
Monday, September 19, 2005 Getting nearer to the tournament date so basically tonight’s class was focused on brushing up on our Forms in front of a small group of people. Not much else to report on.
Friday, September 16 – 7:00pm – well past midnight Question: How long was the test? Answer: It was long. Question: How hard was the belt test? Answer: It was hard. Question: What did you do? Answer: We belt tested.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 It’s tournament time so tonight’s karate class begins to focus on forms and sparring training. We broke off into four groups of six and each group had to perform a form in front of the others. I did the Southern form and missed two hand strikes. I can do the form [...]
Monday, September 12, 2005 Tonight started off on some intense warm-ups. First we did push-ups by doing 10 strict ones and then go down into the halfway position for 10 seconds. Then bang out 10 more, then half way down for 10 seconds and then another set again. Then the Sensei had us go down [...]
Wednesday, September 7 This evening we focused on techniques to break away from an attacker who grabs both of your wrists. One technique was to rotate the hand with the palm facing upward, break the wrist hold and then shuto to the neck while throwing in a kick to the knee. The other moves got [...]
Want to learn more and children’s karate and women’s self defense classes: http://www.ussd-colorado.com Monday, September 5, 2005 – Labor Day Tonight’s adult class had about 14 people in it which was pretty good considering it was Labor Day. We did our warm-ups outside in the parking lot and then proceeded to do line drills. First [...]
