Wednesday, February 25, 2009 This evening’s karate class centered on the theme of back and forth and side to side footwork. Some of the exercises included ducking techniques. After pairing up, the exercise progressed up to doing a spinning backfist to the temple. Stayed after class for some lessons which includes doing some DM’s with [...]
Monday, February 16, 2009 Tonight was a full blown physical workout. About midway through warm-ups, we lined up to do some forward and backward lunges and side to side leaning stances. Then the Sensei wanted us to do some katas. We did pinan #3 and #4 and kata #2. Then he wanted us to do [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Tonight we trained on basic footwork applications by either squaring up to the other person or in a side horse position. Then the drills required doing a block/strike combo or doing a side blade, retreating and then advancing while doing a side blade.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Today’s evening adult karate class was focused on doing our kempos and defense manuevers in groups of three’s.
Monday, February 2, 2009 Looks like the Superbowl kept everybody home for Monday’s karate class. Tonight’s class was devoted to countering arm grabs, choke holds, lapel grabs, etc… The hour class went by fairly quickly because we covered about 6-7 different techniques starting with just breaking free from the hold to taking control of the [...]
