Started karate tonight with some bo drills. Very basic. Just learning the footwork. Then we put away the bo and practiced the same footwork with inward blocks. After that, we …

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 …

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 …

Tuesday night’s class was another rough one. Started with about 35 minutes of medicine ball work. Then we moved onto using the heavy bag and used it for some military style …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …