Beginners:

Tuesday we had a rough class. I had you close your eyes to actually test your knowledge of the things we have been learning over the last few weeks. Some of you knew it, some of you didnt. Keep up with the material. For your yellow belt you need to learn:

Dojo Rules, Basics, Japanese Vocabulary, Techniques, etc.
Proper Stances
Your kicks: Front, Round, Side, Back
6 Punch Series and 6 Block Series
H-Form Kata
Ippon #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

Learn Ippon #1 and you have the rest.

Ippon #2 change the shuto (knife strike) to a hammer fist

Ippon #3 change the shuto from #1 to a right upside down (inverted) knuckle thrust (leopard strike) to throat

Ippon #4 change the shuto from #1 to a tate zuki (vertical fist strike) to rib cage

Ippon #5 change the shuto from #1 to a palm heel strike to the nose (just like our self defense)

If you have everything else, your almost ready to be tested. Just be patient and continue learning.

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Advanced:

We worked on falls, rolls, and kicks as a warm up. Moved to ippons, kihons, teuzus (odd #’s) and Kata bunkai today.

Sweeps and weapon work on Thursday.

Beginners:

Today our focus was on H Form kata. If you dont remember any of the moves theres is a whole kata sheet that I will upload shortly with pictures. Its in the student files - enter the password - then go to the kata section and click H-Form Kata.

If you forgot the password - ask me about it in class.

Don’t forget to keep reviewing your punches, blocks, kicks, falls, ippons, and self defense.

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Advanced:

So many strikes….. If i spell them wrong, don’t be mad but I don’t have time to double check right this second. We can edit it later and add on to this list as we learn more.

1. Chudan Zuki - Chest punch
2. Tate Zuki - Vertical
3. Ura Zuki - Uppercut
4. Kage Zuki - Hook
5. Agie Zuki - Rising
6. Mawashi Zuki - Round house
7. Coken
8. Hiato - Ridge hand
9. Shuto - Knife Hand
10. Showtae - Palm heal
11. Hieraken - Leopard
12. Iraken - Phoenix Eye
13. Gyaka Zuki - Reverse punch
14. Tatsui - Dragon Fist
15. Tet sui - Hammer fist
16. Hibe Uchi - Snake eyes
17. Ippon Nukutae - 1 finger strike
18. Nihan Nukutae - 2 finger strike
19. Nuketae - 3+ finger strike
20. Thumb Knuckle Strike
21. Tiger Claw
22. Uraken - Back fist
23. Oi Zuki - Lunge punch
24. Morate Zuki - Double punch (U punch)
25. Double eye strike
26. Empi Uchi - Elbow strike
27. Haishu Zuki - Slap strike

Beginner:

Today we worked broke up in two groups. We worked on blocks and a basic review for people that have been here for a while. Please study your sheets if you are still learning them as well as your punches. For the other group you went over some basics such as getting up and down, rules, stances, and so forth.

Advanced:

Did some warm ups with kicks, reviewed ippons/kihons/teuzus and went over some more kata things. Hopefully you got to review it a little bit more from last week.

Beginners:

On Thursday I passed out some worksheets for your 6 punch series and 6 block series. You also got the worksheet with Ippon #1. All these worksheets have pictures to help you. So practice and use them! They will be on the web soon to download so check back if you haven’t got one.

We ran over some self defense techniques, basic punches, basic blocks, some kicks, and ippon #1. Practice, practice practice!

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Advanced:

Today was an all day kata day. We went over all the little details from the mudra to hidden movements and so forth. So work on your kata if you missed class.