Back in Karate Again
Monday, October 13, 2008
I skipped five classes since they were 100% focused on tournament training and I wasn’t participating this October. I didn’t mind the little break and I still did double privates at the studio each week.
Tonight’s class started off with 15 suicides. One suicide consists of 1-frog hop, 1-push-up and 1-crunch. Myself and the person to my right were going at a fairly good and clean pace. Even at reps 11-15, we were still going strong. Around rep 14, I noticed 5-6 people standing and already done which I think they “miscounted.
Post Script - If someone wants to short-changing themselves physically, that’s their business.
The main lesson was doing our DM’s with 2 people coming in to attack you one at a time. Our group had one person punching right handed and the other person punching left handed. I had to alternate back between a right and left handed DMs. It wasn’t easy to do.
After that we were in the same group doing our DM’s while the attacker did a 1-2 punch or kick-punch combo. Then the class capped off doing some pad work on our basic kicks.
I stayed later to take a 1/2 hour private and we did Plum Tree blocking.
