It was a Dave night tonight, which for any regular in class means that it was a serious workout. I lead class through warm ups, then after bowing in, we started in on kihone. We performed one hundred of each of the following while in zenkutsu dachi (front stance); oi zuki (front punch), gedan barai (down block), age uke (rising block), uchi uke (forearm/inside block), tetsui uke (hammerfist/outside block), mae geri keage (front snap kick), mawashi geri (round kick). After all this, we moved into ippon kumite (one-attack sparring) for the last fifteen minutes or so.
It was a good class. Frankly, I don’t always appreciate Dave’s classes as he tends towards the “drill sargent” approach which negatively motivates me. However, there wasn’t as much of that tonight and it was a good work out. I’ll definately be feeling it tomorrow!