My wife wife and son still weren’t feeling well, so I went to class early to help out. I like to help out since I often warm up the classes and get some extra stretching in. It also helped make my sore shoulder feel a little better.
When time came for my class, Sensei Gatch had everyone work on sparring so I went off to the side to work on some kihon and kata on my own.
I did moving forward in zenkutsu dachi:
- Gedan barai with gayku zuki.
- Age uke with gayku zuki.
- Soto uke with gayku zuki.
- Uchi uke with gayku zuki.
- Uchi usk and kizami zuki with gayku zuki.
- kokutsu dachi with shuto uke.
- Kokutsu dachi with shuto uke, mae geri and zenkutsu dachi with nukite.
I spent most of the time working on my hip rotation. I used a little less power but made sure that my hips came around.
Next, I worked on some kata. I did an entire Jion at a slow pace and then finished up working on parts of the kata.
Sensei Gatch called me over to help referee with some sparring matches and I ended up doing that until the end of class. I am hoping that helping referee will help me when the time comes for me to test for my referee license sometime in the future.
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