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This week we took delivery of some small Reebok hand weights. More…

What we began doing last week, and continued this week, was de-training the “left follows right” mentality, this is apotentially bad habit that can come automatically from practicing the base moves. i.e left, follows right, follow left, ad infinitum. More…

Last night we went to our second Friday night class. As newbies to the group it was cool that Sensai John chose Rich to take the warmup, this time with no warning at all. Rich did a sterling job, although did threaten to lapse into boxercise warm up at one time, and backed out of what could have been an epic ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ warm up finale. More…

Until now we’ve been going to karate once a week, easing ourselves into it slowly. Last week we took two classes, and this week we’ll be doing the same. More…

This week Emma was called out front and took the warm up, and did it very well indeed, though i think we need to make everyone warm up more because the general fitness level of the class is quite low. Conversely the speed of uptake on the 1st and 2nd Kata has been very good according to Sensei John, who’s been surprised that a whole class has kept largely in-step at such a brisk pace. More…

Tuesday’s Karate was interesting. When we entered the Dojo and talked to Sensei John he mentioned that he would be picking someone “at random” to lead the warm-up session. He usually gets some of the orange belts out the front to demonstrate techniques, and has been getting Tony (who’s currently Orange belt and training to be a Sempai out to do the warm up on occasion. More…

The order day a fella came round the house asking if we’d be intersted in learning about Karate. With the London Marathon behind us, and having done a fair bit of boxing, we thought it might be good to do a different style of training. More…