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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 …

September 2-4

There was no class Monday night due to Memorial Day. Tuesday Night We started off with 15 minutes of jogging around the room; followed by 15 minutes of The Medicine …

August 25-28

Monday night, I actually got to train. Sensei Walker led us through a pretty technical class that was basically going over what Sensei Keyes had went over the previous Monday. …

New Kid’s Test Requirements

The new kids test requirements have been being used for the last several months, but they have now been added to the site under the “Children’s Belt Requirements” link. They …

August 18-22, 2014

Monday nights started out with tournament prep focusing on tournament kata. After that class, Sensei Keyes made an appearance and led the regular class through a very technically grueling class. …

Karate Week in Recap

No class on Monday due to inclement weather. Tuesday night, we did quite a bit of medicine ball work, followed by practicing jab-reverse punch-front kick, jab-reverse punch-round kick, and jab-spinning …

Stances, Bo, and Kata

Been slacking off on the training updates. Here’s the summary for the last 3 nights. Taught all 3 classes tonight. Nothing but stance training. Lots of sweat and shaking legs. …