[BigAl]

KYOKUSHIN KARATE:
Good workout today. Straight kumite focus. We hopped right into it and did several rounds on the pads with the following combinations:

**Lead low roundhouse kick to the inner thigh, lead straight-rear shita tsuki to the solar plexus. Did both sides, 5 minutes each.
**Rear low roundhouse kick to the outer thigh followed up by a lunging knee to the solar plexus. Both sides, 5 minutes each.
**Lead push kick to the gut to a rear low roundhouse kick to the outer thigh. Both sides, 3 minutes each.
**Lead straight-rear straight to the solar plexus. Both sides, 2 minutes each.
**Rear straight. Both sides, 1 minute each.

Totals out to be 32 minutes of padwork each, or just about 11 rounds. Add into the fact that you've gotta hold for the other person the same amount of time and you get little rest between them. Real tough workout, we were all hurting by the end.

Finished off the day with some fingertip pushups, knuckle pushups, then some abwork (crunches, oblique crunches, reverse crunches, and accelerated leg raises), then finished off with some Ikken. A little dehydrated today, need to drink more water.

Stuff to work on:
**Dropping my weight more into the gedan mawashi geris.
**I either draw back or drop my hand when I'm getting ready to fire off a rear straight, need to rectify those ASAP as it shows I'm getting sloppy.
**Make sure I don't shuffle when I get ready to throw the lead push kick, by raising my leg high and forward I should get enough of a slide to avoid this.