Denver Colorado Karate Classes Blog

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I missed a few classes due to traveling and I wasn’t sure if the dojo was open in Memorial Day so I stayed home. Last week I was in Florida and my running still feels uncomfortable after about 1 mile/10 minutes into the run. My breathing doesn’t plateau and get into a rhythm. It just gets more and more harder to maintain the same pace. Could be a combo of not running consistently for the last six months and clots dissolving in the lungs.

Tonight’s adult karate class and private lesson was a mixture of timing, strength and fitness. Having to do 30-40 crescent/reverse crescent kicks was hard but not aerobically difficult for me. 4 months ago I would have gassed out in the 2nd set of 10 kicks. Tonight we also did 1 for 1 3-6 hand combos while in the horse stance and half mooning forward and backwards. That took some coordination to maintain rhythm and concentration.

Overall, it was a good 1 hr, 45 minute workout.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Tonight’s theme was nothing but leg applied to different applications. First we started off with pad work doing instep, round house and cresent kicks. Then we did front ball, thrust and spinning back kicks. Then we partnered up to do our DM’s while the attacker was throwing a kick and then a punch. After that, it was running through our kempos and I am so rusty on the kempos and need to do some extra work on them.

May 5, 2008

The entire class training was in slow motion tonight. Warm up exercises were done slower (except jumping jacks) and then were partnered up to do our top 4-5 DM’s at 25% of normal speed. This would force you to do the technique using proper form and it also taxes the muscle groups a bit differently that going full speed.

After that we did kumite in slow motion too. Kind of like Tai Chi and it allowed you to focus on your technique and targeting again.

I liked the change of pace and we should do this once a month.