December 2
Karate tonight was pretty good. Started out doing Fukyugata 1, 2, and 3 and Pinan 1 and 2. Then we worked on basics focusing on full relaxation to full tension …
December 1
Monday night’s karate class was almost all bo kata. We worked on some relaxation/quickness drills with and without bo; but mostly it was bo kata. Went through Shihonuke, Shushi no …
Nov 3-6
Monday night’s class was all kihon kumite. We started with chudan sanban kumite for the first hour. Then we put one of our brown belts through the gaunlet: his back …
Oct 20-23
Monday night’s class was really good. Sensei Keyes came up from Jefferson City and taught a really good basic class on knife hand blocks and moving in cat stance; focusing …
Oct 13-16
Totally forgot to recap last week’s karate, so here’s a very short summary… Oct 13-16… Monday we started with a good long calisthenics warmup, then we went over several of …
October 6 – 9
Monday night’s class started off with about an hour of calisthenics consisting of jumping rope, heavy bag work, and medicine ball work. After this, we move on to the yakusoku …
Sept 29-Oct 2
Monday night’s karate class was pretty standard. We ran though all the test basics. Then we quizzed some of the lower ranks on the knowledge portions of their test. After …
September 22-25
Monday night’s karate class was a carbon copy of the previous week. Just tournament prep. Lots of sparring and kata. Tuesday night’s class started out with some basic self defense …
September 15-18
This Week in Karate ——————————— Monday night was entirely tournament prep. Sensei Walker and Shindo were at the dojo, so I decided to go to the gym instead and at …
September 8-11
Monday Monday night’s karate class started with about 40 minutes of sparring: 2 minute rounds with the loser of each match doing 10 pushups between matches. After sparring, we spent …