Me an Tasha my niece with our medals that we won at our Karate Presentation / Xmas doo

 

 My medals I got at my Karate Presentation

All my medals I've gotten so far.

Students who won in the competition Nov.2011

My nephew winning the class trophy.

My nephew  got his red belt.

My nephew won gold in Kata and Kumite, holding trophy, his cousin to the right of him wining bronze in kata and kumite.

So the past month, karate training has been going well. Two weeks ago there was a competition, I didnt get to go this time, because I had to work and I wasn't prepared to go to the competition again with 2hrs of sleep. Last  competition I went with a couple of hours of sleep and I was just over tired and didn't really enjoy it as much as I wanted.  Yesterday at karate, my sensei told me that I was doing really good and my katat, pinan nidan was looking good, and my stances are looking good.


My nephew he got gold in kata and kumited on his first competition, well done to him.

I didnt go to karate this week, haven't been feeling well at all, so I stayed home. Hopefully next week I feel better.

Today in karate we done mostly kata training and a little bit of our gradings.  My nephew got his gi , he was wearing it today, he looked so cute. He is doing really well in karate. He's learning pretty good and fast. His sister Im not to sure she wants to do karate nor takes it to serious as shes only 4 1/2 well shes  5 in Jan. Our lesson was aight today, went by fast as normal. :)

Sept 29th 2011

Thursday Karate students. I am in there I am the one with my hair on my shoulder to the left of the guy in the black shirt.- Orange belt  I am. 

Sept 22,2011 I got my Orange belt! I am excited and cant wait to wear my new belt and start training as a orange belt!

 This past karate class we was working hard. My sister-inlaw decided to bring her two kids along for their first karate lesson. The boy who is nearly 7 and the girl is nearly 5. The boy did a better job an seemed to enjoy it as the girl didn't seem to know what was going on and didnt really pay much attention.  She clung to me a few times, which is cute but when not good when Im in training. Once I'm at karate im in training mode and I expect people to take it as serious as I do. Well at the end of the lesson, me an 2 other yellow belt boys was being graded for orange belt, at the end of the grading we had a punishment dont know why to be honest haha. But we had to do star jumps for a while then leg changes,push ups more star jumps then had to run  up an down the hall 5 times then more star jumps.

I was so tired ! My legs were getting trembling and stiff i felt like i couldnt hold myself up any longer I could hardly walk my leg muscles were so tense an stiff and trembling all at the same time. I am happy that Im gonna get my orange belt next week!! And in 2 weeks ill be training as a orange belt!! Im excited.

I been practicing Pinan Shodan the past month, and I think I finally got it!!! I am pleased with myself as that is a kata needed for your blue blue belt. Three belts above me now (yellow). I am happy with myself.  So the katas I know are pinan nidan and pian shodan, although it needs alot of work yet haha.

Karate boys!

Shaun came alone in july 2011 to join our karate class. He was shy and nervous!

But within a couple weeks, he was opening up an doing well, so well he won the weekly trouphy!

It wasn't long till Shaun earned his red belt!! ( Auguest 2011)

Soon his little brother wanted to do karate!! And not long after joining, he won the trophy to!


(Aug 27th) Now look at these two karate boys in their gi's ! Aren't they so adorable!?!

I challenge you to the 100 work out.

Do this workout in a 100 minutes or less! (1hr 40minutes)

We had 2 lessons now since I last updated my blog. I am still a yellow belt, still learning, and its great. I don't know if I can go to karate this thursday, I was suppose to work, but now my shift was changed again so I am not working thursday. I spent my karate money though, so I dont know if I can go to karate now!! Arrggh! I hate missing karate lessons, i need all the practice i can get! Well I'll have to see if I can go thursday.

Its been two weeks since I had a karate lesson. My thursdays have been slightly boring with out my lessons. Finally next thursday karate lessons will be back to normal!!!  I wonder how many people been practicing karate in the past two weeks? I have to admit, I haven't been practicing enough in the last two weeks, oops! I want to get more flexible, so I am going to start stretching my leg muscles eachday to get more flexible. Its going to be hard but I can do it. I just got to get motivated haha.

Pinan Nidan ^

Pinan Shodan ^

Pian Yodan ^



Pinan Sandon


Pinan Godan


         Ku Shan Ku- only good video I found.

June 2011

March 2011

Belt rack

This looks really cool, I want one!!

Class

We don't have karate lessons for the next 2 weeks!! What am I going to do on thursdays now? Hmmm well I can eat my dinner and have a bath before 9pm thats for sure haha.  Yesterday's class was madness, it was pretty rushed  but still fun. I brought 2 of my nieces with me, they seemed to enjoy it. BB seemed to enjoy it more though than PP, but never the less they both had fun.  Next class is on the 25th Aug. untill then I will hve to practice at home.

Belts

 White belt- Feb 2011

Got my red belt March 2011

Got my yellow belt July 2011

I got my yellow belt on July 7th 2011, I would of got it in june but I had missed 3 lessons though so I was graded in july. I am super excited to be a yellow belt. Its getting harder, but its so much fun.

In house karate competition

Brentwood, in house karate competition. June 12, 2011 

Silver Medal in Kumite

Silver Medal in Kumite

My first karate competition and I got silver (2nd place) in kumite-sparring. It was a long day, there was more children than adults but it was still good. I did Pinan Nidan pretty good for a red belt, unfortuntely I was against XX who is really good and experienced. I think I did well for my fist competiton and I'm glad I got a medal. I  thought I was going to get a medal for kata and not place for sparring, but nope the opposit. I was really nervous all day. (noon-6pm) The next karate competition is in November.

Bee