This class was torture for me for some reason.  I couldn’t turn my hips to save my life and my stances just didn’t feel correct.  It felt like my right hip was jammed into my lower back and bending low just wasn’t an option for me today. Face your...

I don’t remember doing this many kicks in one class in a long time. Get a partner… We started out in a horse stance across from our partner.  From there, we did 10 each single punch, double punch and triple punch and then it was our partners turn. ...

Great class again! Working on those basics kicks…. Sensei Cieplik had us start our kihon with three each, forward and backward, of rising block, downward block, inward  block and outward block.  After that, we worked on back stance with knife hand...

Sensei Noia has been helping us prepare for our upcoming rank examinations and tonight was almost exclusive stance training.  Sensei started class with a long warm up and stretching routine. Stance, stance, stance…. We started out in a horse stance...

Sensei Plocharczyk really worked us today.  I don’t remember doing this many kicks in a long time. Focus mitt, partner and lots of kicks…. Sensei had us get a partner and our focus mitts.  From there we started with a low roundhouse kick.  Our...