Noon class. Went into class looking to do some personal work, but wound up leading class. I actually love leading class, pretty great way to solidify what you know yourself.
I’ve found you don’t truly learn something until you try to teach someone else.
It was weapons and kata, so we worked Too San and Naihanchin 3x times each, very slowly. Then we did Bo 1 4x times very slowly and then drilled the strike + kick + spin part a dozen times.
5:30am Dojo. We ran through all of our Kata, medium speed. Just keeping our bodies moving and testing our muscle memory.
The rule was to work to NOT think ahead during the Kata(s) and only focus on the move we are performing… It was quite difficult but I wound up getting through all my Kata(s) with only one real mix up during Konku.
5:30am: We did a Kata + Endurance drill this morning. We did 1 round of Cindy and then kata. So:
+1 Cindy
Taigo 1, 2 & 3
+1 Cindy
Pinan 1 & 5
+1 Cindy
Too San
Naihanchin
+1 Cindy
Giin
Empi
+1 Cindy
Seisan
+1 Cindy
Konku
Sieunchin
It was tough… But we worked specifically on trying to draw on our power & energy late in the drill, around Seisan time. To see where we were. Much work to be done this month too.
5:30 am: Worked through our Kata for an hour this morning. We shuffled the Kata cards and worked one by one and back to back of each of our Kata. Worked up a good sweat and felt pretty good about them. I’m finally starting to feel like I understand the movements better. Like there’s a small auto-pilot starting to take over from time to time. I need to work to try to channel this more over the course of this month.
Classifying this as straight up training. Worked for 3 hours straight. Kata, Weapons, Self Defense… The whole shebang tonight.
Kata: Konku, Pinan 5
Weapons: Nunchuka, Bo 1 & 2, Sai
Self Defense: 6th & 7th set
– Side Knife Attack x4
– Dislocated Shoulder x4
– Hook Kick x4
– Short Rib x4
– Hip Toss x4
– 360 x4
– Blasting Elbow x4
+ Face Kick Breakdown x4