Archive for February 26th, 2009

This week finally marks my first time in the dojo this year.  Monday night Sensei Struchtemeyer returned with a killer circuit training workout that included 5 stations.  Station 1 was kata, station 2 was beating “the big blue bag” with open handed strikes in sets of 3, station 3 was clinch knee strikes on a kicking shield, station 4 was full power palm heel strikes to the shields, and station 5 was continuous striking against 2 heavy bags.  It was a killer workout for the class, and everyone was thoroughly exhausted by the end of the class.

Unfortunately, due to my injury, I was unable to participate.  Instead, I did kata for the entire hour and a half at the best pace I could. I think I did about 18 different kata at least 5 times each. I still had a pretty good workout, and it did me some good to review all the kata.

Thursday night’s class was focused on the kata Ananku.  Not as exciting as Monday night, but a good workout and something the class needed to cover.