After a very lazy Sunday morning, I headed to the gym with Paul for a casual karate workout. We did some stretching, basics, the combination of the month from the Arvada dojo, and then some kata. I took him through Heian Shodan and Heian Nidan a few times so he could continue learning them, then we did Bassai Dai and Empi just for fun.
We tend to share the aerobics room with whatever other rag-tag group of exercise people, and today there were some guys that looked at first like they were doing breakdancing practice but after awhile it became obvious they were some form of Capoeira. Some of the stretching and bending they do was pretty incredible looking, but I question the effectiveness of some of the techniques they were working on.
And before those of you come here to say “stop being so close minded, other martial arts have value”, I AGREE. However, when practitioners are overheard saying “this is how they get cool kicks like you see in the Matrix” I immediately question the value. Just sayin’.
Ignoring all of that, we still had a pretty decent workout. I got a sweat going and I got to work on some of our combination and timing drills while Paul got to work on refreshing his basics and kata. Much fun was had by all!
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