Session 16 Monday 10th December 7:00pm (Final session before the rest fo the guys head home)

An excellent training session with Kai Sensei, Most of the class focused on kumite drills with partners and in lines starting with only Jodan attacks then chudan then kicks changing partners after each set, then we went on to do jiyyu kumite changing partners, the class finished off with each student doing their tokui kata.

Session 15 - Monday 10th December 10.30am

Brilliant session with Nagaki Sensei today, 30 minutes basic kihon, then some gohon kumite with Kagawa, Watanabe & Okamoto Senseis, some jiyyu kumite with them also an session finished off with Bassai Sho. Nice one!

Session 14 Friday 7th December 2012 7pm

Yet another fantastic class with Makita Sensei, a combination of basic karate techniques in sets of 30 & 50 reps followed by intervals of core exercises. The last 25 minutes focused on Heian Sandan & Heian Godan before finishing by doing your favourite kata.

Session 13 Friday 7th December 2012 10.30am

 

This was my favourite class of the trip so far with an amazing instructor Kanayama Sensei, the complete class was focused on tube training with reps of 30 on every exercise, we were split into partners and drilled quite hard on punches, kicks and stances before completng the class with all of the Heian kata again with the tubes, class was absolutely fantastic.

Session 12 Thursday 6th December 2012 7pm

Oh my god this was an unbelievable class with Kagawa Sensei, Ido kihon for 30 minutes but at an unbeilevably rapid pace, all of which Kagawa Sensei did with us and made it look damn easy, the second half of the class was in groups of 3 and focused on kumite drills in 30 second sets, again at an unbelivable fast pace with Kagawa Sensei pushing us very hard indeed, the final part of the class was on Bassai dai. Kanackered!!!!!

Session 11 Thursday 6th December 2012 10.30am

This was an absolutely fantastic class taught by Yamaguchi Sensei, the complete class was focused on relaxation and creating speed and power through the hips, Sensei used different exercises to work on those principles and finished the class of with katas Kakyioku Sandan and Chinte.

Session 10 Wednesday 5th December 2012 7pm

An absolutely amazing class with Okamoto Sensei tonight, the class focused on a lot of basic combinations and reps of the same moving into partner work, working on leg combinations again with sets of 30 of each at high speed, Very very good class indeed.