Karate 40
by Administrator ~ April 29th, 2008. Filed under: Karate, Training Notes.I’m not very happy with my footwork in the katas, and I am not comfortable looking toward my attacker when I have to turn 270 degrees. When I’m turning 180 degrees, I can look back in the same direction I am turning, but in the 270 degree turn, my attacker is coming at me from, say, my right and it is easy for me to look 90 degrees to my right to look at him but then I have to turn counterclockwise in the opposite direction. So my head is turning clockwise to look at him, while my body has to turn in the opposite direction. I have tried looking in the same direction as I want to turn but I just can’t turn my head 270 degrees. I have a similar problem just turning 180 degrees to for that matter, just not as pronounced. Is there some secret Okinawan Karate method that teaches you how to turn your head like an owl? That would be cool! Now that’s what I would call flexibility!
Small little details like that crop up long after you think you’ve got it down pat.
Marilyn is just getting sick, and I am just getting over it. We both should right as rain by Saturday. That’s about all I have to say.
