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
Several times I went on a hike to do Kata up in the Mountains of NC somewhere this weekend.
First hike me and my son got up at 6:00am, before daybreak, and hiked up to Triple Falls in Dupont Forest. It was freezing, literally, 30 degrees. The boy was cold… Got up to the falls and did several Kata: Taigo 1, Pinan 1, Too San & Sieunchin + video recorded them for Blackbelt requirements too.
Good stuff…
Second hike was up to a small lake about a mile up from our cabin. Got there and did a few Kata as well: Too San, Taigo 3 & Seisan. There were briars all around and my foot got caught up in one patch of them. Not fun, still picking thorns out even tonight…
Super cool weekend up in the mountains, even with the fires burning just a few miles away. I could use about 3 more days up there.
Kata: Worked Kata as a group, but did Too San and Naihanchin. Good ones to dig into really.
Then worked on Siaunchin for a few sets. Sensei asked me to do it again for him and he fine tuned some stuff for me and fixed the ending. I was doing it as one move when it should be two distinct moves.
Then we did Konku on our own for the rest of the class. I made it though pretty well and felt good overall with my work today.