Sunday – Intuflow, playing with weights.
Monday Ashihara – warmup was basics then – 1, step-ups, situps, pushups, bagwork free striking - 10×10 each 2. starjumps, legraises, plank, bagwork freestriking - 10x 20seconds each 3. squats, elbow situps, pushups, bagwork kicking 6 x 20 seconds. Then stretching.
Then kicking drills. Spinning, jumping, axe-kicks all kinds of stuff. This is where Ashihara and I part company in a serious way.
Finished with some Yi Chuan standing meditation which I found extremely interesting.
Tuesday – teaching night. Warmup with strikes to focus pads. Revised some of Saturday’s stuff. The three boys each took a segment – mainly spear leading to takedown stuff. Then situps/pushups/legraises/plank 5×10 each.
Finished with tournament style sparring practise because five of the group are entering Saturdays NZ GKR nationals.
Wednesday – GKR senior class – kata all night starting from the beginning.
Thursday – Rest night and silly kung-fu movie. This was a really good one – “Shaolin Princes” – Brilliant!