Today’s class was kicks for warmup and then Taigo 1 Kata with the blocks and punches worked in. I feel great about my Kata, at least from today. My kicks were not very well executed, telling me I need more work there.

Sensei invited me for my first belt test on February 22nd. I'm definitely worried about that given it will be directly after 2 long trips for me and i’ll have missed 4 of my normal classes. I’ll just have to start working very hard from here out in January so that February is all review.

Post Karate I went to the gym with Giovanni and worked out our Olympic set, I nearly puked twice. Simply cannot go for a full week without hitting this set, too much can be lost too fast on this thing.