Mar 4, 2014
Day 112
Worked Kata drills at the Dojo. Taigo 1, Taigo 3 and Too-San. Sensei worked in plenty of push ups and a physical challenge to end the class on. Really hard, pressing, focused class tonight.
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Day 112
Worked Kata drills at the Dojo. Taigo 1, Taigo 3 and Too-San. Sensei worked in plenty of push ups and a physical challenge to end the class on. Really hard, pressing, focused class tonight.
Day 95
Today's class was a practice on a single kata. Taigo 3. I had been contemplating doing a single private lesson class just for this kata. I'm sure I can still use it, but working on the single kata for an entire 45 minutes is great. I feel like I improved a good bit after today's class however, I still have a lot of room for improvement as with any kata - the moment you think you can't continue to learn and improve is the moment you're done...
Day 84
Private Lesson: Had a great private lesson with Sensei this morning. Drilling kata and tweaking things. Taigo 1 (just footwork), Taigo 2, Taigo 3, Pinan 1 and Bo 1. Hard work and had some great conversation to start the day as well.
A running theme for me is "Calamity springs from carelessness" though. I felt like I was taking the session seriously but I made some pretty carless mistakes that would have cost me dearly in a rank test.
I'll continue to drill these kata on my own then schedule two other private lessons as we get closer to rank test so I make sure i'm doing things correctly and working on focus.
Day 80
Had a pretty good learning class in Kata tonight. We worked Taigo 3 extensively after working on basic kicks and stretching. I fumbled with the Kata most of the evening but I think it's sunk in enough for me to practice on my own and drill it.
Day 66
Started back on Boken today. Got Boken 1 & 2 down. Very fun stuff.
Then we worked Taigo 3 after some Neko Ashi Dashi and Zenkutsu Dachi front kicks. I worked all the way back through Taigo 3. Felt pretty decent when done with class.
Rank test that was scheduled for August 30th. I have to postpone it, i'm not close enough in the knowledge or practice of the basic requirements even. There's not enough time between now and August 30 to fit in what I don't know. Especially with an August 10th written portion deadline. Ugh.
It's better to be humble and work hard than to set yourself up for defeat...