Class led by Brad. Stretch with pushups and bulgarian squats. Sanbon kumite at quarter to half speed to work on good technique. Heian katas shodan through godan (1-5).
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Class led by Brad. Stretch followed by learning Kanku and going through it a few times. Finished with a few partners of sanbon kumite.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch, then kicking drills against the pads. Front snap kick, side thrust kick, side snap kick, and round house kick. We finished with several times through on Tekki Shodan.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch, then right into Teki Shodan at least 20 times through. We then rotated through several partners of slow-motion jyu kumite. The idea was for both combatants to go at quarter speed and still be effective. Finished with a few rounds of half to three quarter speed sparring.
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Class led by Brad. Focus on kicks. Lots of front snap and side thrust kicks. Also did Heian Yodan and Godan some.
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Class led by Brad. Standard stretch and pushups. Focus tonight on oi zucki, making the movement all forward, no wind-up, no telegraphing. Finished with several times through Heian Sandon, including a few mirrored.
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Class with Chris, Steven, Joshua and Jesse. Stretch and requirements once through, then a focus session on good movement followed by a study on The Mantis. After the break, I instructed on Shotokan Karate kihon (basics), teaching zenkutsu dachi (front stance), oi zuki (front punch), mae geri keage (front snap kick), yoko geri kekomi (side thrust kick), and gedan barai, soto uke and age uke (down, outside and rising blocks). I finished up with Gad’s sword disarming technique.
(After class, Jesse and Joshua expressed interest in kata Taikyoku Shodan, so we went through it a few times, too)
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Special training event with Godan Sensei Ken Osborne. Focus on assessing your opponent, keeping technique simple, using weight shift and balance (and lack there of in opponent).
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Special workshop with Curt Wvong, an SKA Yodan. We had most of the Redding SKA dojo regulars plus some from Chico, and one of Curt’s San Jose students. The training focused largely on gyaku tsuki (reverse punch), and how to apply it for a variety of ranges, stances, and targets. Some key lessons that I learned were to keep the hands and forearms targeted toward the opponent, rather then in a more contracted defensive position. Creating a target and making it available to your opponent so that they “have to attack”, and then using that to pre-emptively attack or to counter attack significantly improves your effectiveness. If you spend all your time with a tight defense, your opponent will attempt any number of attacks to try to find a hole, but if you intentionally create a hole, you know where they are going to attack. Another item was being able to attack from any stance. He quoted Musashi regarding how your fighting stance should be your everyday stance, and vice versa, or in other words, you should not need a special stance for a specific kind of attack, you should train to make the attack from any stance in order to be the most prepared and effective.
Some of the drills we did pointed out how to effectively apply the defensive position reached at the end of tetsui uke, how just standing in that position can deflect an incoming oi tsuki, and how to use timing and positioning to deflect an incoming jodan mai te or gyaku tsuki with your own. -
Class led by Hiroko. 200 kibidachi dips. Focus drills on good hip movement. Katas Heian Shodan and Heian Sandan.
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Class led by Hiroko. Partner oi tsuki passes, then close ma kibi dachi punches/defense. Finished with sanbon kumite.
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I led warm up, then class led by Hiroko.
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Class led by Hiroko. Started with stretch and partner kihon with bags (oi tsuki, gyaku tsuki, mai geri, yoko geri kokome, mawashi gerri). January is kibidachi tsuki month, so we then worked on chudan and jodan oi tsuki in kibidachi, both individual, and then as a counter to an opponent making oi tsuki in zenkutso dachi.
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Class led by Brad. Oi tsuki pass-by drill with partners (chudan and jodan), then 3 punch oi tsuki ma drill with partner. Finished with Teki Shodan.
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Class led by Brad.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch and kihon. Kick focus session using bags. Front, side thust, and round kicks. Ended with Heian Shodan with variations (no hands, only right, only left, mirror, reverse).
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Class led by Brad, several students present. Stretch and warm up, then attack combinations with partners, followed by blocking combinations. The combinations were oi zuchi – mai gerri, mawashi gerri – urakken, and yoko gerri kokome – urakken. We finished with some ippon kumite.
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Class led by Brad with six other students. Stretch and warm up. Heian Shodan focus session, starting very slow and steadily increasing the rate, followed by Basai practice. Finished with ippon kumite.
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Class led by Brad. Only three other (new) brown belts in attendance. We did a long focus session on moving with our hips, using our core to pull together smoothly, quickly, and without external clues. Started with no hands, then light hands, then worked with partners as targets, chudan first, then jodan. We finished with some Basai.
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Went to karate tonight, instructed by Brad. Long warm up stretch, then kihon, followed by Hadon Shodan, Hadon Sandon, Hadon Yodan and Hadon Godan. I was a little rusty on the first pass through some of the kata, and was sweating a lot in stance, but had no problems otherwise.
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I made it to class tonight. Hiroko lead the class. We started with Basai several times through, then did jiyu kumite and finished with a bit of sanbon kumite.
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Attended class. Kihon with partners, ippon kumite techniques.
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Class led by Hiroko tonight. We had a couple new students and covered some basics. Hiroko is off to Special Training this coming weekend so we did kibidachi for a while, then we went through kihon. Hiroko then introduced a couple books she had found on tapping into your chi.
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Attended class tonight. There were approximately 10 other students and the class was led by Brad. We did some partner drills working on maintaining a good mah, and some passing techniques to keep us close and ultimately behind our opponent. The later part of class we worked on Tekki Shodan and ended with a drill to practice good stance and movement, whereby a partner holds a belt about your waist like reins and you attempt to move away from them in the designated stance (tonight it was kibidachi (side), zenkutsodachi (front) and kokutsodachi (back)).
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I attended karate class tonight. Primary focus was on kumite technique with Sanbon drills.