Your Craziest Training Session

[im.aho]

Anyone care to describe their craziest/most extreme training session? What did it involve? How long was it? Please describe.

[Arikei]

hm maybe 2006 seiken chudan tsuki and then an open-air training in the snow (the air temperature was about -7/-10 degree centigrade)
p.s it was a new year's eve

[im.aho]

how long did you guys train outside?

Did you wear shoes or put on winter jackets?

[Ilovekyokushin]

Originally Posted by Arikei

hm maybe 2006 seiken chudan tsuki and then an open-air training in the snow (the air temperature was about -7/-10 degree centigrade)
p.s it was a new year's eve

:shock: wow, that does sound crazy!!! What is like training in such circumstances?

[stalvl]

200 Mae Kiagi and it will not be that cold :lol: :lol:

[Arikei]

2ponchoflash - it didn't last too long, i suppose that we were training outside for about 5 minutes (hopefully we made 2006 seiken chudan tsuki at the gym There were not any shoes or winter jackets, just our do gies (sorry if i wrote down this word incorrectly).

[im.aho]

5 minutes isn't too bad... I've had longer sessions in the snow... But it is a lot of fun to train in the snow and in the cold!

[kyofighter]

The crazyest training I had it was in Romania with Sensei Brezovai (those who know him understand how nuts he is)...so it was a national winter camp, over 150 karateka...he made us train at midnight out in the snow ...we did the kihon geiko and after that paired us up and we did 1000 gedan mawashi leg conditioning and he was walking beetween the lines and kicking if you don't kick hard enough...after that we had to do 1000 push ups in the snow (20 rounds of 50 pushups)...many people had bad frost marks next day and half of us could barely walk right...but now that I think about , it was great...he made us scream Osu and Kyokushin for Life ! when we showed signs of slowing down or getting tired...he tryed to show us the Spirit of Osu and Kyokushin - never give up...
Osu

[im.aho]

wow, were you guys barefeet for that training? Did you only wear your dogi? no t-shirts or anything under the dogi?

how cold was it?

[kyofighter]

we were allowed to wear shoes...no shirt...it was midnight in the winter in Transylvania...picture that... :lol:

[im.aho]

it's not as bad if you are allowed to wear shoes. Going barefoot in the snow is very cold and painful, but some senseis require that all students go barefeet when training outside in the snow.

[kyofighter]

I know how it feels with no shoes in the snow, but you can't do that for one hour or ask everyone to be barefooted , like kids and girls...this was a national winter camp not a uchi deshi training...

[Kyokushin555]

Craziest training I have ever done was in the winter of 2004. I was outside for 4 hours training in the snow, with break periods every now and then. Not that many, I just spent the whole day conditioning and pushing myslef beyond limits.

An other time was during my solitary training in the mountains. That was a 8 hour day. Very intence mental endurance.

[im.aho]

Originally Posted by Kyokushin555

Craziest training I have ever done was in the winter of 2004. I was outside for 4 hours training in the snow, with break periods every now and then. Not that many, I just spent the whole day conditioning and pushing myslef beyond limits.

An other time was during my solitary training in the mountains. That was a 8 hour day. Very intence mental endurance.

OSU to that... you're really pushing the limit. Glad you didn't get any frostbites on your feet or on your body. Especially knowing how cold the Quebec winters are... usually around -20c or so!

OSU!

[migueru21]

My hard training but was after fighting in oyama's cup in Montreal year 2000 and on the following day we made a training with the president of eko (iko3) Josefz Borza of but of two hours basically of movements geri

[Fire!]

Originally Posted by migueru21

My hard training but was after fighting in oyama's cup in Montreal year 2000 and on the following day we made a training with the president of eko (iko3) Josefz Borza of but of two hours basically of movements geri

That's really interesting..

[Groucho]

Snow training is tough and all, not saying it isn't...but I have a mantra that helps me through it:"I am Canadian, I have been colder, I expect no better..."

For me, it was a Saturday night in August...Hamamatsu, Japan...the cooling system (mos def NOT air conditioning) had given out, and it was around 40 Celsius plus humidity...Sensei threw open the windows, we opened the class, and he said "seiken chudan tsuki...i-sen!"

and so it went...jodan mawashi geri, 1000...tetsui komi kami, 1000...you get the picture...three hours later, we showered, changed and went out for yakiniku, all you can eat, all you can drink

Good times

[im.aho]

yes, I remember the insanely hot Japanese summer. Makes Toronto's summer look like child's play.

At least your sensei opened the windows, I've heard of sessions where the windows were closed on purpose!

Were you guys allowed drink breaks? Or was your sensei quite hardcore and traditional and didn't allow for any of that until the class was over?

What winter training have you done?

OSU!

[Groucho]

Drinking was for the weak...

he did allow us to wring out our gi tops after about 2 hours...

that drove home just how hard we were working...that and the other clubs who'd cancelled their classes looking in and muttering "baka, desho?" and "tsuyoi, ne?"

[im.aho]

hahaha... OSU to you and your sensei for keeping it traditional!!