Monday, December 29, 2008 Tonight’s theme was focused on doing our defense maneuvers. After warm-ups, the Sensei would call out a DM number and everybody in the class would do the technique. The brown belts and higher had to add “10″ to the number and then perform that technique. So if the Sensei called out [...]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 We had an earlier class than usual due to being Xmas eve. The adult class started at 3pm and ended at 4pm. It was nice there was a special class set up to accommodate those interested to attend. The Sensei started us off doing 8 pt blocking using 1-2 combos while [...]
Monday, December 22, 2008 I waited a week to write this entry and don’t actually remember the specifics of the class. We did partner up after warm-ups to do a block/strike exercise where both are doing the blocking and striking in one fluid motion. We rotated down the line with different people. There was more [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 We started warmups with countdowns…again. Green belts and higher started at 13 reps and to do jj’s, froghops, pushups, crunches and reverse crunches. That’s 91 reps per exercise (91 frog hops!) for a total of 455 reps. By the time I did 45 frog hops, I transitioned over to doing squats. [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008 I didn’t go to karate tonight because it was too cold outside. Monday morning it was -20 degrees. The high during the day was +2 degrees. In the office, I was microwaving water in a coffee cup to a boil so I can use it as a hand warmer. By evening [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Just a slight digression here. Being a newly anoited black belt comes with a different persona. On one hand, you soon realize that you don’t have to test 10+ times over a 5 year period, so that sort of dojo pressure is off of you. On the other hand, you do [...]
Monday, December 8, 2008 Not to get off topic but this evenings class was special to me because I was focused on using a knucklehead person as the brunt of my karate training. Long story short, a Sunday afternoon stroll on a HRMD park trail involved having a speed race biker nearly run into me [...]
December 3, 2008 Warm-ups consisted of a new stretch that basically has you squatting down a bit, back straight up while holding onto your ankles. We held this position for about 2-3 minutes. Then we had to leap off the ground about one foot while clapping the soles of your feet together and then land [...]
Monday, December 1, 2008 Tonight’s theme was based upon the tactical application of staying close to your opponent while circling around them and being the aggressor. First exercise was doing half mooning around the person partnered up with (hard to describe the exercise) and in a couple of steps, both of us were facing each [...]
