2008 Workout #1: Goal Setting and Basics…

Tonight we had an excellent tune-up style basic workout. Both classes were truly fundamental in nature… lunge punches, basic kicks, and some light sparring combinations near the end.

Before classes began, we finalized our 2008 Plan (as previewed by ): a kata a month, which then becomes our warmup kata for the following month starting with Tekki Nidan. For January, the warmup will be the Heian katas. Once we run out of single katas to do within a month, we will just start doing them all and see how many we rack up by the end of the year.

As for the kumite, we’re going to do the same thing, starting with basic kata drills. We’ll change up the techniques to add variety, and work our way up to slow and free sparring later in the year.

I will probably do a kata tracker reminiscent of my Sochin Tracker from 2006, which I will add to the footer of my karate related blog posts for the remainder of the year.

Looking forward to some good karate stuff in 2008!!