Posts under ‘Karate’

I thought of various other titles for this post. Titles like “It was brutal! It was really really brutal!” But Brain Monkeys won out. And today’s run was brutal. I hurt a lot. I’m just this crazy frozen lump of crazy frozen ting. I barely made it back [...]

Well the first class of 2010 was relatively easy. I don’t think any of us did any karate during the holidays and the Christmas break of almost a month didn’t help. Classes usually end during this time as the schools where we have our dojo are usually booked solid with Christmas activities for [...]

A new training regime has recently been introduced by Sensei Juan Molina in which we warm up by running, and other aerobic exercises which I quite like. It involves a bit of running around the gym for a few laps then changing direction and going the other way. The routine has us slow [...]

I managed to make it all the way through this karate class, but I almost didn’t for reasons unrelated to my neck. For some reason, probably because I’m old and crippled, my right forearm went into spasm about an hour and a quarter into the class. It felt like the forearm bone wanted [...]

Yesterday was my first time back since the summer/fall break. I only managed to do one hour out of the two because my neck/shoulder muscles got tired too quickly and there was a danger that I delay my recovery if I pushed it too much. I am writing this from the perspective of [...]

I felt not that good today because of allergies caused by me playing around in the yard. There was a lot of dry grass and weed dust and moldy vegetation I was raking around. I got a sore throat and feel like I have the flu, but I think it is just allergies.
Anyway, [...]

A lot of push-ups, crunches, and core exercises and stretching were followed by basic kicks kata. Later we were shown juroku. We were shown this kata once before, but we had to relearn it in yesterday’s class. It is another woman’s kata. It was designed for women. This kata allows [...]