Archives for May 2007

Great class on Friday.

We started with a lot of kicking drills.   My kicks are starting to get better and finally higher.  We did some different moves.  One interesting combination was shuffle up, jab, front leg front snap kick and then rear leg front snap kick.  We did a few more drills like those and then did some roundhouse kicks in place of the front snap kicks.  Then into a horse stance, shuffle up and side thrust kick.  Then the same thing but spin around and side thrust kick with the opposite leg.  It was hard for me to get coordinated with that move.

Then we split up and worked on some more kicking drills.  My balance was awful for some reason.  We did front snap kick, side thrust kick, back kick, roundhouse and front snap kick.  Five moves without touching the ground.  I could do the first front snap kick well but then it seemed that all my balance was gone.

Next we worked on kata.  I did a really strong kata and really nailed the jump but I hurt my left foot.  I came down too hard and think I might have a slight break or a little fracture.  The pad of the ball of my foot is very swollen but I am sure I will live.  I have to spend more time working on getting my hips around for the groin strike and also my back stances.

One each of Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Yondan, Heian Godan and Tekki Shodan. (6 total)

Good class!

The warm up was kinda rough with lots of low walks but then we worked on kata. We did a bunch of speed work, making our moves faster. We did the first part of Heian Godan many times to get our speed up. Then we worked on Jion and Bassai Dai.

Good stuff.

I took Saturday and Sunday off to rest my foot.  I have been having some problems with my left foot for the last couple weeks and I hope that the couple days off have helped it heal.  It didn’t bother my when I did my kata tonight.  It seems to hurt when doing side thrust kicks and roundhouse kicks so I won’t know until I do my kicking in class tomorrow.

One each of Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan and Heian Yondan.  Three each of Heian Godan and Tekki Shodan. (10 total)

I did slow motion kata with a powerful tense of my muscles at the end of each move.  I am hoping to help train myself to tense my muscles right at the end of the move instead of throughout the moves which has been slowing me down.