Hit the gym today, ran a mile (all out at 8 min/mile pace for the last ¼ of it) then did a weight circuit. Then hit the open room for a round of kicks and self-defense practice. Did some work on the focus mits, mostly combos and finished up with kata practice. All in all a fast paced 2 hours.
Much needed.
First one-on-one lesson with Sensei. Worked through Taigo One footwork and full movement, what felt like 100 times. The cool part was the interaction between Sensei and his Sensei who called while we were working. He just put him on speaker phone and included him. Very fun!
I’m feeling more confident now after this lesson than before going into rank test next month. Still a ways to go before I feel ready. Next up is a written test and a 5-8 page paper all due before the 10th of February. Time to get to work.
After class I hit the gym for 2 hours and did some power lifting for the first half and then kick-boxing for the 2nd half. Did some power/push kicks to work on actually using them.
Tonight is the boy’s belt awards ceremony, we’ll find out if either one passed their last test and also watch some board breaking. It’s going to be a fun evening in the Dojo.
Today’s class was kicks for warmup and then Taigo 1 Kata with the blocks and punches worked in. I feel great about my Kata, at least from today. My kicks were not very well executed, telling me I need more work there.
Sensei invited me for my first belt test on February 22nd. I’m definitely worried about that given it will be directly after 2 long trips for me and i’ll have missed 4 of my normal classes. I’ll just have to start working very hard from here out in January so that February is all review.
Post Karate I went to the gym with Giovanni and worked out our Olympic set, I nearly puked twice. Simply cannot go for a full week without hitting this set, too much can be lost too fast on this thing.
Today’s class was amazing. Great warmup, kicks (I wasn’t on my A game for sure…) then Kata, and Sensei worked in some blocks and punches with me on Taigo 1. Some hard practice and the day was just great. After class, I picked up some fight gear so I can start making the weekly fight class at the Dojo. This looks to be very fun. Hopefully I wasn’t too overexcited looking when Sensei said it was cool to start sparring.
After class, Gio and I hit a quick and strong triple set of weight machines then did some kickboxing training for a good 40 minutes. Long day working out but started the year out strong and exciting.