Denver Colorado Karate Classes Blog

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Tonight’s karate adult class consisted of partnering up and doing wrist lock techniques when some grabs your shoulder while face to face and if someone grabbed your shoulder while behind you.

Monday, April 28, 2008

After warm-ups, we partnered up to more warm-ups with pads. 50 front knuckle, shutos and hammer strikes. After that we tehn did stage 1, 2 and 3 buddha palm.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Tonight’s lesson focused on footwork and blocking.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Dojo is full of white belts lately. Still have a ways to go to catch up on my cardio efficiency. Not because of the pulmonary embolis but because the PE’s were probably present since October, 2007 and I probably only ran about 5-6 miles since late October to mid-April. After warmups, we partnered up and ran through our DM’s in random order. Did all of them OK except #19. Then we partnered up and picked 2-3 DM’s/Knife/Kempo’s. After that we went into a dragon circle surrounded by 6 others. I stuck to the basics since the belt level for the others did not allow takedowns and why do long DM’s that tires you out. I used #5, #7, #8, #9, #13, and #18

Monday, April 14, 2008

I haven’t ran since end of February. Just started last Sunday and ran this afternoon. Sensei barks out to do countdowns, starting at 11. I am not doing count downs all out anymore. No point to it. I always finish first but tonight I took my time and paced equally with the person to my right. I recovered aerobically in about 2-3 minutes.

Wednesday, April 2 through Wednesday, April 9

Come down with a bad cold. Coughing, sneezing, the whole works. I stay home so other people in the dojo don’t get sick