Today's work out: Kata, Drills and Kobudo

So actually back in the dojo today, was as ever a good work out 😊 My son helped out with the Shisa class, before joining his own class. then it was my class.  Today was Kata, flow drills and Kobudo.

The yellow belts (including me 😊 ) focussed mainly on Naihanchi Shodan, especially the points that need improving (of which there are still many), but also got to start working on Naihanchi Niedan and go through Naihanchi Sandan.

The flow drill consisted of (from the recievers side), deflections, jodan uke to a haymaker punch, cross wrist block to a hammer first, then open hand block and strike to another haymaker punch.  Apologies for not having all the correct terminology.  The big emphasis was stepping in close to work the blocks, a big feature of our style of karate 😊

After that was going through the Bo Kihon Katas, which is something I really enjoy 😊😊 However, I think I might have been a bit out of time with the drills in places, and look to have made a bit of a dog's dinner on my Neko Dachi 😊😊😊

After the workout, a bit of a communal mat scrubbing and drying. I'm a bit of and old slow coach but I tried! As did my son 😊  Thoroughly enjoyed this session, thank you Senseis Ben and Alison 😊😊