There is not too much to recap now, unfortunately my verbal capabilities are substandard to my writing, but I hope that with time I will be more comfortable in using the web cam to update my blog.
I am happy to be entering my third year of Karate training. Very excited, actually. As mentioned in the video I will be doing a lot of work on keeping my hands up, and working to keep fighting fearlessly but not stupidly. I told my mother while I was visiting that I am fearless to the point of stupidity. Well this year, it would be nice to cut down on the amount of times I come close to some bad injuries because I am not paying attention or getting lost in the moment. Sparring is going to be an important task for me. Techniques and kata are definitely my strong point. It is a little strange. Technique has never been something I have done well in my entire life. I had a horrific time in my music degree because my technique was terrible. I was always way behind my year mates in terms of my playing and it really impacted my confidence, I was always more of an instinctive/ emotional/ creative musician than technical. This time around however, my technique is strong, but I struggle in on the creative instinctive side of karate. Sparring really requires you to be able to SEE and FEEL what your opponent will do next.
Here is my list of goals.
1. Improve endurance, by doing bag work and 3-5 two min rounds a session
2. Really work on upper body strength.... Push ups, pull ups, standing rows, Australian pull ups.... using weighted bag gloves.
3. GREEN BELT
4. weapons training!
5. Musical Kata/ weapons kata!
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