A stressful week from a personal point of view, but an interesting one from a karate viewpoint. Started off being a bit down, as I keep repeating the same mistakes in my Naihanchi Shodan, plus some other things non-karate related. So I did what I usually do, look for something to throw myself into to stop myself brooding on things, that was to look into a Quijong form Eight Brocades. It's a good self contained form of exercise, that can be practiced as individual elements or as a whole, with as few or many repetitions as you want, or have time for.
Of course from a karate stand point, we had the regular three online lessons, which are summarized at the end. The Monday lesson was something different, then the Thursday and Saturday lessons were polishing up kihon gata and the Quadrant drill. Typically, when not feeling too hot about my kata, in the middle of the week our Sensei told us about an online competition being organised by another club to which we were invited. I toyed with the idea of not competing, but then the "don't give up" part of me kicked in and I have given it a go. Still had a twist in the tale though, I recorded it in a black gi, then had a thought... Our dojo wears white for representative combinations, so asked our Sensei and sure enough, needed to re-record. Home dojo has a lot to answer for lol.
There are still mistakes in my Naihanchi Shodan, but have realised they are mostly in one direction. My left hand side actions are not too bad but on the other side, not so hot. After talking to my Sensei am going to start specifically doing the hand movements on their own, in order to check my observations and work on improving my techniques.
The end of the week Karate wise was quite fun though, we entered in to Iain Abernethy's Karate pub quiz, with our team having face time on Zoom (same as we use for training). So nice to interact socially again, a few drinks were had, and I even got a couple of questions right ☺☺☺ An absolutely brilliant way to end the week, and a big thank you to my team mates: Alison, Ben (both our Sensei), Elisha, Chloe, Sam, Marian, Koen and Anita, tor making it such a fun occasion!!!! 🙏🙏🙏.
Our lessons:
20-04
Warm up,
Mokosu, formal opening
Stepping in combat stance, forwards, backwards, left and right.
Forward step, jab, back step
Forward step, jab, reverse punch, back step
Forward step, reverse punch, front leg sweep (Ashi Barai), back step
Forward step, reverse punch, Ashi Barai, reverse kneeling punch to grounded opponent, step back
Kata, up to Naihanchi Sandan, perfomance (Naihanchi Shodan)
Shadow sparring to called combinations
Warm down kata
Tuesday workout including Monday's lesson content and Eight Brocades
23-04
Warm up,
Mokosu, formal opening
Kihon gata:
Shodan - Jab, reverse punch, Mae Geri Nidan - Mae Geri, jab, reverse punch Sandan - Jab, reverse punch, Mawashi Geri off front leg Yondan - Mawashi Geri off front leg, 2 punch combination Godan - Right Mawashi Geri (land in front), left Mawashi geri (land in front), reverse punch, jab. Rokudan - Ashi uke, jab, cross, Mawashi Geri Nanadan - Mae Geri (land in front) right jab, back kick Hachidan - Mae Geri (land in front), back kick, reverse punch Kyudan - Shuffle, backhand forehand punch, shuffle, backhand forehand punch, right then left mawashi geri, ushiro mawashi geri Judan -Shuffle, backhand forehand punch, shuffle, backhand forehand punch, right then left mawashi geri, hisa geri
The competion Video that wasn't
25-04
Warm up,
Mokosu, formal opening
Kata
Then working on the first half om the Quadrant drill
Jab, cross. hook
Hammerfist, looping left, hook
Backhand slap, elbow, step back left knee, step back, right knee
Headbutt, break grasp, shoulder barge.
Kihon gata, Quadrant drill workout
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