Source: Gisoku no Jutsu/MySpace
Original post date: 11 January, 2007

Okay, class was meant to happen yesterday, but it didn’t – not enough people showed up again. This is no doubt due to the fact it almost cracked 40 degrees yesterday (and the hall is mega hot in this weather), so only Hamez, myself and another student rocked up. Sensei K went to the trouble of running us throw a few katas though (Taikyouku Shodan [I didn’t romanise it correctly in yesterday’s blog :P], Saifa and Bassai) before losing up the class – he was pleased that we still came to class and persisted, and felt that by at least doing a little kata, coming along to class wouldn’t be a wasted exercise.

While last week Hamez and I trained after class, we didn’t follow through this time. I went home with the intention to do a work out in place of training, but stuff came up and I didn’t get around to it. Wifey and I are heading over to her parents’ place for dinner tonight, so Hamez and I will probably end up messing around going through some karate over the course of the evening 🙂

Well, here’s hoping the weather’s a bit kinder next week and enough people rock up so we can have a class. Jyustin-kun, who started at our karate school prior to the rest of us and is a great help to me during training, will probably be able to make it to next week’s class. Should be uber, hopefully we’ll get at least one more person coming along so we can make the numbers for a class! The peak of summer and winter is when the numbers always drop off (owing to the respective hot/cold weather), but as soon as it pans out either way, things get back to normal. Looking forward to it!

Bloginated Thursday, 12th February 2009 / Karate, MySpace blogs
Tag-isms: 2007 | Karate | kata | training

Source: Gisoku no Jutsu/MySpace
Original post date:  11 January, 2007

Karate training again tonight – its 36 degrees outside (that’s celsius for those interested, not fahrenheit), so it should make for an awesome session. I love training in the heat – your gi gets soaked all the way through with sweat and it pushes you really hard. It’s awesome, I love summer training!

Last week it was nearly 40 degrees, and not enough people rocked up to make a class, so my brother in law Hamez and I went back to my in-law’s place to train anyhows. Wasn’t as intense as a formal session, but we got to go through things slowly and he’s coming along well for his first kata (the obligatory tokkyouko shodan kata, atypically shotokan in its style) and learning some of the more complex moves quite well. Mind you, he’s only been training once a week for two months (and I first started nearly three years back, with a 12 month break :P), but it’s looking good. One of our sensei’s commented that he’ll be good to go for 9th kyu in a week or two, which is good for him. Personally, I have to step up my training regime to really up my form.

I’m still a decent way away from grading to 5th kyu, so we’ll see how I go. I’d like to train twice a week, but the only classes happening near me are on Wednesday nights. Hopefully we’ll see a second class start up again some time soon – I for one would appreciate it, and it means Hamez can continue his karate training even when the soccer season starts up again.

Well, I’ll let things go here – I’ll write again in the next few days to write down how tonight’s training goes!

Bloginated Thursday, 12th February 2009 / Karate, MySpace blogs
Tag-isms: 2007 | Karate | training

Alright, this is my first post 😛 If you’ve come back this far, I suggest you look elsewhere on the site for some more content! I’ll be adding some more general info pages in the next few days, and will start transferring over my old blog posts in a bit as well. So yeah, welcome, I hope this works, and my apologies for any kinks in the system, as I’m still settinseveral bits and pieces of it up 😛

Bloginated Thursday, 12th February 2009 / Wordpress/system stuff
Tag-isms: 1st post | wordpress