Self Defense day. I like this type of class, it gets monotonous because I haven’t been shown a lot yet, but the practice makes perfect. One are, Two arm, Side snake and Bear hug. Followed by history and vocabulary of Shotokan.
Then hit the gym for 2 hours with Giovanni, did our circuit and 4 sets of plyometrics and more self defense practice.
The third class. I missed the early class after coming back into town late and picked up the evening class for white to orange belts. It was mostly self defense lessons. After a warmup of repeating kicks as exercise we paired off and began to practice three different self defense moves. One hand grab, two hand grab and side grab. Very very fun, I think i’m going to love self defense a great deal. I left feeling very good about myself – also very humbled to have been put on my butt a few times.