Good workout tonight.

Endurance: 

I ran for 30 minutes at the gym tonight.

Stretching:

Bent over splits – 60 seconds
Seiza – 60 seconds
Hamstring stretch – 60 seconds
Lying side leg stretch – 30 seconds each leg

Side leg raises – 3×15
Slow side thrust kicks – 15

Tonight my bent over splits distance between my feet is now 46 inches. I am also 21 inches off the floor.

Today was my wifes and my 4th Kyu exam.

Even though there were not a lot of basics, it was a hard test and I was out of breath pretty fast. I put every bit of effort in to my basics and really pushed my limits.

I think I nailed the jump in Heian Godan and it felt pretty good overall.

My one-step sparring felt excellent. On one of my counter moves, my partner had the look of fear on his face that I cannot describe in text. His eyes were bulging out and he looked very nervous when I put my just few millimeters from his face.

Overall, I wish I had more endurance and I am going to gear my next six months of training more on perfecting all my basics and getting my endurance up. The 3rd Kyu test has many more moves and if I hope to make it through it, I am going to have to build up a lot more endurance.

My wife looked out of this world.  Her basics were almost textbook prefect and her kata was excellent.

Good class again.

I went to class early to warm up and get in some good stretching.

Side leg raises – 3×15
Slow side thrust kicks – 15

I did bent over splits, butterflys and some other stretches and I also ended up doing a bunch of baiscs. I was already soaked with sweat and tired before class even began.

Our Sensei sent us with one of the assistant instructors to help us prepare for our exam tomorrow. Even though our Sensei said to take it easy, it was brutal. We did all of the required moves for our test but with no breaks between moves and all moving forward. For example, at our exam, we would normally do five triple front punches moving forward and five backward but today we did 10 moving forward and then turned and did 10 of say, rising block with reverse punch and so on. I was breathing like on old dog but I made it through it and am pretty sure that I will have enough gas for my exam tomorrow.

Next we did kata and one step sparring.

After that, we were able to take the final 20 minutes of class to stretch. I did some Tekki Shodan and then also did the first four Heian katas incase I am asked to do a lower or higher belt kata at my exam.

It was rough but good.