Another sweaty day in the dojo, starting off with me helping out in my son's class, holding the pads for pad work. After warming up for my own class, we were told that next month there would be a grading, and that they would be checking our techniques to see whether we were ready.
First up was Kata work, which felt good. My Sensei are now picking up on smaller points with me like hand and arm adjustments. Seems like the basics of a straight back, stepping and my naihanchi-dachi stance are starting to fall into place. Practicing at home has certainly helped.
After that it, was going through punches, blocks and strikes, along with the 10 kihon katas. For the first time I can remember I actually managed to work on all 10. On previous occasions I've managed to get through the first 4 or 5 then had to sit out most of the others until the last.
Having managed to execute a spinning kick in the the previous lesson, I desperately wanted to try the Kata I usually missed out on, as at least two or three offer the chance to pivot into position for a kick, or actually do a spinning kick. Its not pretty, but again I seem to be getting there 😊😊😊
Two of our class are up for black belt gradings soon, so the rest of the dojo were asked to do conditioning work with them, a series of four punch and two mawashi-geri combinations down the length of the dojo. We then did pairs work using the same combinations, but with blocking allowed.
Finally there were some 1 minute sparring sessions set up, initially for the brown belts, then for others who wanted to take part. For the first time ever I had a go, and managed to go for the full minute. I might have earned a few Okinawan tattoos for my efforts though 😊😊
The final icing on the cake was I was told that I was ready to go for my next belt (orange), as well as my son (green) next month, so a very sweaty but worthwhile session 😊😊
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