One each of Heian Shodan, Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan and Heian Yondan. Three each of Heian Godan and Tekki Shodan. (8 total) Most of my kata were performed very fast.

Good class!

We started with a hard warm up. We did a bunch of basics up and down the gym. Then we broke into groups, those that tested and those that did not. Since I have not tested yet, I had to get tortured. We did many basics, up the first Kyu level.

We then spent time working on kata. We did one at half speed but perfect form and two at full speed and full power. One of my Sensei’s said that my kata looked very fast, sharp and powerful. I have been doing my kata’s as fast as I can when training and it seems to be making a difference.

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

One each of Heian Shodan and Heian Godan.

Good class again on Saturday.

We did mostly a repeat of Friday’s class. Lots of basics and kata.

One thing that really helped was something my Sensei said about doing kata. He made the point that many of us really slow down by trying to show that our moves are powerful. Instead of trying to force the power, he said to just relax everything and go through the moves as fast as possible. I have always powered my way though my moves and when I just relaxed my muscles, my moves were much more fluid and much easier to execute. I am going to add some high speed kata’s like those to my current kata training and see what happens.