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. …

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. …

Knees, Elbows, and Sticks

Tonights training started with front, side, and round kicks on the bag followed by a kata run through. Afterwards, we focused on knees and elbows on the heavy bag. After …

January 2011 Belt Test

Folks seemed interested, so here’s tonight’s pretest workout… Started with 10 minutes of calisthenics. Next was 100 punches in shiko-dachi. Then 100 stationary front kicks in zenkutsu-dachi. Next was 100 …

Basic Round Kick

Tuesday night marked my return to the dojo after a two month absence due to a crazy work schedule. We worked on building muscles required to do round kick. We …