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 …
Sept 7 – 11
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 …
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 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 …