Daily Archives: Saturday, November 10, 2007

Wow it was a hard workout today. We had a whole lot of black belts come in from Edmonton and surrounding areas this morning because they are getting ready for a tournament in Toronto soon, I think next week. It was pretty crowded. They were in the back doing their own thing while we white belts and colored belts practiced on our own. Buhrs Sensei had us doing a lot of push-ups and core strengthening exercises after our warm-up. Then we practiced our kicks using the protective mats again. I did pretty good except that my right toe started to get sore from the impact even though were we impacting on the instep, the shock of hitting the hard leather (or is it vinyl?) bag eventually made it pretty sore. Then Barrau Sensei took us through a long series of katas, stressing form and count and every time one of … Continue reading →