Monday, October 31, 2005 I expected tonight’s karate class to be empty but there were 11 students who showed up. The evening’s warm-ups started off with “Count Downs.” The count downs start at 10 and consisted of: jumping jacks, crunches, squats, reverse crunches, calf raises and then frog hops. I was the first to finish. [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Highlands Ranch Martial Arts, Cardio Exercises Missed Monday’s class due to travels out of town. Tonight’s class was belt test evaluation theme night. Warm-ups consisted of doing 50 crunches then up on your feet to do Pinan #1. Back on the floor and bang out 50 reverse crunches and spring up [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Tonight’s class only had seven people in it. I was in the front line for the first time. The warm-up exercises consisted of asking each student what exercise and how many reps would we like to do. So we basically did 7 different warm-up exercises and the reps ranged from 25-50 [...]
Monday, October 17, 2005 Self Defense Training Men Women & Children Nearing belt testing so class evaluations starting this evening. This evenings adult class started off with doing some DM’s mixed in with some push-ups, squats and crunches. I had a mental block doing DM #10 and did the other 16 DM’s OK. I am [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Karate School, Colorado Martial Arts Schools, Karate Training: www.ussd-colorado.com I thought Monday’s class was challenging. Wednesday’s adult karate class in Highlands Ranch was theme night focusing on the abdomen. We did the requisite 50 jumping jacks, 50 push-ups and then into the abs. We partnered up into two single lines. We [...]
Monday, October 10, 2005 Tonight’s class was unusual in the sense that (1.) there were no lower ranks below blue/green stripe (except for one yellow belt) and (2.) there were no females in the class when there are usually 4-5. There were a total of about 15 students tonight. Warm-ups started off with the usual [...]
October 8, 2005 Sparring, Kata, Forms, Weapons – Denver Colorado Green/Green-Brown Sparring – 35 and older As I write this log, it’s not to complain about anything. What happened, happened and you move on. Since I took first place 6 months ago, I should have done better than getting wiped out in the first round. [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 Karate, Martial Arts Training, Cardio Kickboxing, Women’s Self Defense Training – Highlands Ranch With the tournament 3 days away, the class was spent on doing our Forms and Point Sparring.
Monday, October 3, 2005 Adult Karate Classes, Kumite Sparring, Kick Boxing Tournament Training – Colorado This evenings class was all point sparring. First we did a few line drills to evade and/slip a punch or a kick and then retaliate back with a punch. Then we sparred a few opponents. Nothing unusual to add except [...]
