by Gene Crawford | Sep 27, 2016
Fighting. Today’s noon class was all out. We showed up and saw an obstacle course setup with skills ladder and 5 bags pulled out. Hooyah!
We did 4 rounds of feet drills with the skills ladder then a set of different kick and punch combos on the bags, running between them. We did 2 final rounds that were the same except on the skills ladder we did pushups and a plyo-pushup hop to the next set – for every ladder rung… Hooyah!
Then we paired up and did several 1:30 rounds. Then a deadman drill of 3 rounds for 1:30 each. Pretty fun.
Then we were called into the center of the floor and drew a Kata card and did the Kata on the spot. I drew Too San and went for it. Then we did a game where we bet on each other’s ability to perform Pinan 1 in a chosen amount of time, the loser of the bet owed 30 push ups. I said 50 seconds and had Sempai attempt it. He beast-ed it out and I did the push ups…
Man what a fun class today. It had everything!
by Gene Crawford | Sep 22, 2016
Teaching. Taught a youth class and an adult class today/tonight. The youth class was fighting. I mostly had them doing fitness and then footwork stuff. Then for the adults we did a good bit of fitness, with a focus on stamina and work capacity. Running + pushups. Then we did a lot of kata, back to back sort of style. Finishing up with the prowler 🙂
All in all, I REALLY enjoy this aspect of it all. Instruction is very rewarding.
by Gene Crawford | Sep 15, 2016
5:30am Training. We did a shuttle drill, where we ran between 10 cones, about 10 yards apart. Then at each cone did an ascending ladder of push ups, burpees and sit ups. This thoroughly wrecked me…
Then we worked Kata; Konku, Seiunchin & Seisan
by Gene Crawford | Sep 6, 2016
Got to the dojo and was really sore and dragging. Did a 15 minute ROM and stretching sequence and got to feeling better. Did a few rounds of misc Kata based on the card draw to make it random. Didn’t perform too terribly well but moved and went through the Kata(s) and fixed some movements and bits. Decent morning.
by Gene Crawford | Sep 1, 2016
Got to the Dojo at 5:30am to just move… It was lackluster but getting out of bed and just getting there was a battle for me today. Creaky, dry and tired… my Kata was slow and unsteady at best but I battled through and did it. I suppose that’s something.
