Last night's class was another excellent, physically draining workout. There were about 12-14 people in the class, and after Sempai took us through the regular warm-up, Sensei continued us through more strenuous warm-ups for a short while before starting on the katas he wanted to review with us.
The most junior student was a teenaged purple belt - 5th or 4th kyu - so I believe that's why Sensei took us through Heian Nidan, Heian Sandan, Heian Yondan, Heian Godan and Tekki Shodan before progressing to the black belt kata we normally practice (since the club is predominantly brown and black belts). After we went through all of those kata multiple times and at different intensities with Sensei using different students to demonstrate the key points in each of the kata, we finally did a black belt kata, Kanku Dai.
Of course, by that part of the class I had about 10% juice left in my batteries, and while they recharge at a fair rate during the many rests Sensei gives us, once the batteries have been drained a bunch, they drain a lot more quickly after a bit of recharge ;)
Because of the concert I'm going to tonight and the upcoming holiday weekend, there's no karate class until next Wednesday. So, I guess I'll be treadmillin' it until then!
Jill
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We also practised Kanku Dai tonight. We have concentrated for that kata a while with the middlegroup on Fridays. Thats a really demanding kata, up and down and jump and long and very, very strong basics.
But - I have discovered the last weeks, that I somehow like that Kata.
Chadie (chadie.nu/dojo/)
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