Youth Kata/Weapons class. Taught class again, it was the White Belt Blue & Green Stripes. We warmed up by running a few laps, then went through basic kicks, up to Side Kick (they haven’t learned Back Kick yet.) Then we drilled Taigo 1 footwork only. One kid only learned it up to the first Kia, so we just drilled it and drilled it. I flubbed the pivot after the first Kia a bit… Just gotta learn my lesson here and move on.
I taught class today. 12:15 adult class was Kata. Orange Belt requirments; Taigo 1, 2, 3 & Pinan 1. I had everyone warm up and then did basic kicks.
We then drilled Kata for about 30 minutes straight. We went through all of them, did did a single person demo and then a team drill, where once the person who starts gets to a certain point in the Kata the other person starts and on down the line until everyone has gone. Good stuff, I think they liked working on their Kata like this.
Teaching class today. It’s Kata: Taigo 1, 3, Too San and Giin.
Going to have them warm up with a modified Cindy then basic kicks. We’ll do two teams of Kata and then end with a prowler pull-push challenge.
Should be a good class. Looking forward to leading it today.
I taught class today. We had a full range of students from 6th all the way to 1st Queue. We warmed up by doing 3x rounds of 5 pushups, 10 squats & 5 medball squats. Then we drilled Kata; Taigo 1 (feet only), Taigo 1, Taigo 2, Taigo 3 & Pinan 1. Then we did Bo 1 and Bo 2. I had them really pushing to get through the Kata so we could show one student who has a rank test coming up soon how it would feel to drill them back to back all at once. Good class.
On my way out of class, out of nowhere, I had a bird fly by overhead and take a crap right on my head… it must have been like 100 feet in the air because it felt like someone dropped a brick on my head. Crazy…
Brown & Blackbelt class. We started off drilling our basic Kata: Taigo 1 feet only, Taigo 1 hands and feet, Taigo 2, Taigo 3 and Pinan 1. Then we worked on the footwork only to Naihanchin. I really like the hip movement and swivel action we were shown for Naihanchin tonight.
Then we split off and started on Kanku. We started off being asked if we’ve been practicing, I had to honestly answer “no”. Sensei wasn’t too happy about that but it is what it is. I need to just work on it so we can get through learning the Kata. That’s on me…