A Dark Side Adventure

Morning – I had some spare time today so I went to train with the gkr recruitment team at the full time dojo.

Warmup with running, pushups and situps. Did some very basic basics. Then a nice drill blocking a hook with two handed shuto then countering, moving to blocking and striking simultaneously, moving to preemptive striking with a grab. Didn’t go far enough obviously, so I just improvised the rest. Could have spent a lot longer on this but we went on to workshop grade kata, quite successfully.

Senior Class – Warmup. Basics sigh. Then a horrible drill involving super-slow motion kicks to work on balance, dynamics and leg strength. Then a progressive group blocke strike drill. Finished with kata.

Afterwards I had an argument/discussion with a senior student, one of my former senseis, about why we do karate, effectiveness (or lack of it), and technique vs principles. None so blind….

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