by Gene Crawford | Feb 16, 2016
Brown & Blackbelt class, 2nd class. Basics again. Yep, this will be 2 straight hours of basics. We started off running 6 laps. Then did plyo box jumps. I’m decent at these so it wasn’t too bad on me. We then dug into the 5th set of Self Defense like we’ve been doing. Drilling it nice and slow and deliberate.
The second half of class got interesting. We did 4th set of Basics. Yop Chun Gin, Yop Chun Don, San Sun Yop Chun Don, and Yak Su. I know these pretty well but have practiced them the least. So the movements aren’t burned into my brain very well. But we drilled these up and down the floor going into and out of horse stance over and over. I struggled but didn’t quit. It was so painful but I kept going. I feel like this was a pretty good wake up call for me as to remember what to expect during Blackbelt test. At some point my legs literally went to sleep and I was able to kind of sit down into the horse stance, but then when we lined up for Yak Su, I almost fell over a couple times. It felt pretty weak but I feel stronger for having stuck out class to see what I was made of mentally. I mentally didn’t quit, even if my legs wanted to run home.
We pushed right up to my metabolic threshold tonight. I went out into the parking lot and dry heaved a couple times, thought I was going to lose it but I held it down. I said “Hooyah” when Sensei asked us for any feedback at the end of class and I meant every syllable of it.
by Gene Crawford | Feb 16, 2016
Monday Class #1. BASICS… ZOMG…
We started off with basic kicks then we did a medicine ball deadlift drill where we were all in unison and did 30 reps. We then drilled basic kicks again and another round of med ball dead lifts. After that we went into drilling the basics one by one. I got pinged with a couple rounds of pushups for not being quick enough with answers on naming the 2nd and 3rd sets of Basics. Derp… But I did pretty well when we did our rounds of basics only doing one set of pushups on about 20 minutes of them over all. Was pretty rung out after that first class though. Had to seriously start digging deep to stay for 2nd class. But got over myself and stuck it out.
by Gene Crawford | Dec 8, 2015
Basics. We drilled basics for most of the class. A couple of 15 to 20 minute sessions.
Started with basic kicks and did memory work during the kicks.
Basics or Kihon:
Charleot
Sah Go Sey Chumbee
Chun Gin
San Don Chun Gin
Hah Don Banue
San Don Banue
Jew Mok
Mi Bo Sey
Shuto
Sudo
Cha Na Gi
Cha No Ki
Op Cha Gi
Yop Cha Gi
Kukusu
Kwan Su
El Ban Kwan Su
Eel Ban Kwan Su
Pal Heel Strike
Ridge Hand
Spear Hand
Yop Chun Gin
Yop Chun Don
San Sun Yop Chun Don
Yak Su
by Gene Crawford | Nov 3, 2015
Basics. Haven’t done basics in quite some time. Started off with Basic kicks, I felt really good doing these today. Then learned three new Basics: Yop Chun Gin, Yop Chun Don, and San Sun Yop Chun Don. Then drilled and drilled. Did a ton of pushups. The last drill was to do each basic that has a strike in it. Blew my mind…
by Gene Crawford | May 28, 2015
Basics. Did basic kicks 4x on each. Then drilled basics and the 3rd set which I just learned today.
