Tonight was another night of working hard at combinations.
The combinations were:
- Jab
- Reverse Punch
- Step forward and punch with the same hand
- Reverse Punch
Most of the night was taken up with replacing technique #3 with different things: a backfist strike, a ridgehand strike, and a spinning backfist strike. We did each of these at 20 times apiece and then moved on to the same combination, but with front and rear leg front kicks instead of the punching techniques. We replaced the same-leg kick with roundhouse kick, side thrust kick, and finally spinning back kick.
We tried these combinations with partners next, followed by one time through our individual kata. By the time we got to this my legs were shot, and Sensei Tarrant wanted to throw a Jion at the end for good measure. My legs were actually having trouble keeping stance during this last kata, so that means it was a good class!
More soon!
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