{"id":69,"date":"2004-12-30T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2004\/12\/30\/22\/69\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:08:37","slug":"shotokan-karate-ska-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2004\/12\/30\/22\/69\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotokan Karate (SKA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I led class tonight. There were three others; Sean, Ricky, and Ashley. We warmed up and bowed in, then did kihon, including going through the uke sets a second time stepping backwards. We then worked on Taikyoku Shodan and Heian Shodan, including using proper timing and focus. I followed this with bunkai (interpretation\/application) for Taikyoku Shodan. For the last twenty five minutes of class, we did ippon and sanbon kumite, chudan level, rotating so that everyone had a chance to face each other student, finishing with a demonstration by Sean and myself to give Ricky and Ashley and idea of the intensity level and focus they should be striving for. With a short cool-down stretch and bowing out, we ended class.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased that I remembered to include bunkai. The last time I had a chance to lead, I forgot I wanted to do that. Next time I have the chance, I want to have the class analyze one of the Heian katas (nidan or higher), or a portion of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I led class tonight. There were three others; Sean, Ricky, and Ashley. We warmed up and bowed in, then did kihon, including going through the uke sets a second time stepping backwards. We then worked on Taikyoku Shodan and Heian Shodan, including using proper timing and focus. I followed this with bunkai (interpretation\/application) for Taikyoku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}