Sensei Noia packed a lot of work into this class today.  I can hardly remember all of the drills that we worked on but I will do my best.  We started our warm ups running and shuffling from one line to another. Horse stance with your partner and...

Sensei Brien had us start out in a horse stance with many punches and blocks to get warmed up. Functional kata basics…. I cannot really describe this any better way than I did above.  Sensei had us do various moves from various kata’s.  For...

I lost track of how many times I have said this in the past but I keep saying it so that, maybe one day, I will not be so surprised.  After all this time, I finally understand something that I have been doing wrong for over five years. Keep those...

Sensei Noia has been working to get us ready for our exams and todays class was good example. Work those stances…. We started out moving forward across the dojo twisting our hips.  For example, we moved forward and twisted or snapped our hips into a...

There have been some classes where Sensei Cieplik has us do certain movements that might not be understood until you have some to digest them.  Today was one of those classes. Punch forward and down…. After doing the usual combinations of rising...