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.

Excellent class.  We spent most of the time working on hip mobility and specific parts of our kata.  The moves were very hard and not only made heavy use of our hips but it also focused on speed and coordination.   One movement started in a back stance knife hand block, then spin around in to a front stance groin strike and then into a back stance double block from Heian Godan.