Pushed: In the dojo

I have to admit I didn't feel at my best today, but wasn't a day for shirking.  After the warm up, it was trying to keep each leg in turn up at kicking height for 10-15 seconds.  Given I am no the best, needless to say I ended up with two lots of forfeit pressups. 

Then it was on to stepping drills, keeping moving in fighting stance without crossing legs.   This was folowed by the same drill with punches, then with each foot in turn on a fixed spot, turning in stance to the position called by our Sensei. 

After that was padwork on punches, stressing punching through and spending time on the target; Naihanchi drills then kicks onto pads.  The one that pushed me the most was the pyramid, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mawasha-geris with one leg then the same with the other leg.

It certainly pushed me as hard, if not harder than, I've been pushed before and got my heart rate up enough that I had to take a few breaks.  The last half hour was fun though; bo kihon kata 😊😊😊  Naihanchi Shoda to wind down then finished: An excellent lesson 😊 

After dinner, I had to go and do a bo kihon kata in the garden to work off a little too much food.  Thought it wouldn't do too much harm to video, but please excuse the state of the garden.  It's been badly neglected whilst wasn't I too clever and then with other things going on, so will be one of this summer's projects  😊