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annuinLast Monday's karate class was interesting. When I saw shihan* walking around in his gi in the office I groaned inwardly, because his classes are usually quite vigourous. And if things aren't done satisfactorily, like loud enough 'kiai', then you get to do stuff over, or extra push-ups.
Then again, by Zach's account the friday class he went to with senpai Sergio was more punishing than any class I've had... 500 kicks. 200 mae geri (front kick), 300 mawashi geri (roundhouse kick). Eek.
But, instead of shihan teaching, we had a special guest. 8th dan sensei Peter Chong, one of the International Karate Organisation's committee members for Asia-Pacific, and Singapore branch chief. Apparantly he was in town for business for a day, and took time out of his schedule to come in and teach a class.
I always enjoy when we have a different teacher, because they all have a different approach and will do different things after kihon (basic training), though even the senpais we have regularly do this too. No one class is ever the same, which keeps things fresh and interesting. And every 6 months or so some of our senpais get exchanged with new ones, just as senpai Eduardo went back to Brazil, and senpai Sergio replaced him, who'll be going back to Brazil mid-December. We currently also have senpai Slawic from Poland, not sure how long he's staying though, if he's here for 6 months too, I'm guessing he'll depart not too long after Sergio does as he's been here for a while already.
Last Wednesday's class was by Sergio, who had us doing quite vigourous stuff. No 500 kicks, but 200, 100 each of mae geri and mawashi geri. 200 was more than enough.
We forfeited this Monday night's session, mostly because PreZ worked from home, and I had to bow out of Wednesday's class because I wasn't feeling too well.
And so karate class continues on... 9 months and counting.
* 5th dan blackbelt who runs our dojo.
Then again, by Zach's account the friday class he went to with senpai Sergio was more punishing than any class I've had... 500 kicks. 200 mae geri (front kick), 300 mawashi geri (roundhouse kick). Eek.
But, instead of shihan teaching, we had a special guest. 8th dan sensei Peter Chong, one of the International Karate Organisation's committee members for Asia-Pacific, and Singapore branch chief. Apparantly he was in town for business for a day, and took time out of his schedule to come in and teach a class.
I always enjoy when we have a different teacher, because they all have a different approach and will do different things after kihon (basic training), though even the senpais we have regularly do this too. No one class is ever the same, which keeps things fresh and interesting. And every 6 months or so some of our senpais get exchanged with new ones, just as senpai Eduardo went back to Brazil, and senpai Sergio replaced him, who'll be going back to Brazil mid-December. We currently also have senpai Slawic from Poland, not sure how long he's staying though, if he's here for 6 months too, I'm guessing he'll depart not too long after Sergio does as he's been here for a while already.
Last Wednesday's class was by Sergio, who had us doing quite vigourous stuff. No 500 kicks, but 200, 100 each of mae geri and mawashi geri. 200 was more than enough.
We forfeited this Monday night's session, mostly because PreZ worked from home, and I had to bow out of Wednesday's class because I wasn't feeling too well.
And so karate class continues on... 9 months and counting.
* 5th dan blackbelt who runs our dojo.
