Great Practice

Today I worked really hard on my defenses and my lead leg kicks, I did a lot of "excellent work" according to my instructor so I am really happy about that.

My Defenses are:

- Delayed Sword(shirt grab defense)

- Opposing Sword(left hook punch defense)

- Alternating Mace(2 handed push defense)

- Deflecting Hammer(front kick defense)

- Crushing Hammer(bear hug attack defense)

I refined my Lead Leg Side Kick as well. I have to make sure I kick with my heel rather than the ball of my foot. Basically just keep my toes up.

I think I am getting pretty close to ready for my White Belt test I just gotta learn a couple more things and make the stuff I know more perfect.

That's it for tonight, class was good today, we were pretty much all released to do what we need.

Happy Halloween everyone!

-Steve

Great Class

Class today was awesome, went over everything we needed to know and I got a couple of compliments.

I have been practicing all of the stuff I know daily so I have been getting better and better.

I got the sheet of all the stuff I need to know for the white belt test and it shouldn't be too bad. Looks like it will be in a few weeks. I am sure I will be fine though, it's pretty easy.

Until next time

-Steve

Slow practice

Todays practice was pretty slow and low key, we worked on a partner and a speed drill today. Then after that we moved on to working specifically on what we need to know for our tests. My white belt test should be pretty easy but I need to learn exactly what everything is first, by name.

Next class(maybe tomorrow) I am gonna talk to one of my instructors and see if they can give me a hand with some of the stuff.

I have my form down, as well as my kicks, just gotta figure out the defenses by name, since that is my weakest point right now as I have no way of practicing them at this moment.

I feel pretty good in my ability to do everything, just need some quick fixes in my defenses and to see if they can give me some exercises I can do alone at home.

Overall I am pleased however and all is well, time for bed!

-Steve

Defenses

Today we did a lot of defensive stuff including some of the stuff required for my White Belt.

I keep practicing my form and the stances. My horse stance can be held for a good amount of time and is held really low now so I am pretty happy about that, unfortunately our regular teacher was out of town doing some kind of black belt testing, so good luck to him!

I love the school, it's really great and the people there are great. I love Martial Arts so far, one of the best things I could have ever done so far, it's awesome.

Until next time, Later

-Steve

Form, Strikes, Defenses a hard days work

Welcome back to the blog!

I had regular old school today English/Trigonometry. Then I came home and was bored for a little while and couldn't wait for my martial arts class.

I almost didn't make it to class in time, but alas I made it just barely.

Today I learned the form I am going to need for my White Belt. It's fun and I seem to be doing pretty well on it. After the form I learned my strikes.

-Lead Front Kick

-Lead Side Kick

-Rear Front Kick

-Rear Side Kick

-Jab

-Punch

Those are all of them that I need to know so far I guess. I also learned the defenses for White Belt.

-Defense for Push

-Defense for Shirt Grab

-Defense for Bear hug

-Defense for Front Kick

I am learning them all pretty fast(or so they tell me) so who knows what will happen next!

Until next time, later

-Steve

First Class

So my first class was tonight and it went incredibly well!

I loved it!

Horse Stance still is killin' my legs but it will all be worth it in the end I think.

I can't wait to get more into it and learning more things. I learned some of the stuff I will be needing for White Belt and my next class will be tuesday night I can't wait I am really excited about it. The instructor is really cool and seems to be really good so we will see what happens. 

There were only 3 other guys in the class so the class is really small but it was awesome.

Anyway, I have worn out my excitement. See you all later.

-Steve

First Post

Hello everyone!

This is my first blog post. I figure I will use it to say first of all hello and I hope you all enjoy reading my posts.

Today has been a boring day. I went to work for 5 am and then I came home at 10 am.

Tonight I have a "trial" class for a Martial Arts school. But I plan on trying to take regular classes there in not too much time. This blog is primarily for that so I can keep track of my progress.

I have been skateboarding too much as well. My legs are ready to fall off and I feel like I may have damaged my toe a little. It swelled up to be pretty big but I was still able to move it so who knows. I am REALLY close to getting my 360 Flips off of the middle box at the skatepark. 

But enough about that. I just hope I don't hurt myself too bad so that I don't hinder my chances of being able to do Kung Fu to it's fullest.

That is all for now, I may post later tonight after the class to let you all know how it went but until then only time will tell.

Later,

-Steve