Paedde's Training Journal

[Paedde]

I wanted to start that weeks before, it's now time to do it

Monday - Home Training
Tuesday - Kyokushin Class (2h)
Wednesday - Home Training
Thursday - Kyokushin Class (2.5h)
Friday - Kyokushin Class (1.5h)
Saturday - Home Training
Sunday - Relax

Home Training will include Bag work, Shadowboxing/kicking, Conditioning and Stretching. I have a heavy bag, pull up bar and a jumping rope so far, looking forward to upgrade my training equipment if needed.

I plan to attend a Kata Tourney in a few months and a Semi-Contact Tournament in about a year.

8. Kyu now, started 3 months before.

The first report will come after training tonight

[Olrac]

osu Paedde,

sounds like a great workout.
I have started something like that for the european Tezuka cup, next januari.

Monday - private kumite training with sensei (1.5h)
Tuesday - kyokushin class (2.5h)
Wednesday - Home training
Thursday - Kyokushin class (2.5h)
Friday - Hometraining
Saturday - Kyokushin class (2h)
Sunday - Hometraining

Hometraining includes running, push ups, sit up, squats

[Paedde]

Looks pretty good, do you think you can manage the routine without a day to rest?

I think I will also need to catch up a sparring partner in a few months (private kumite with sensei or a sempai would be sooo nice )

Do we have a thread about home training? I still need to figure out what's best

[Olrac]

Originally Posted by Paedde

Looks pretty good, do you think you can manage the routine without a day to rest?

Don't think too much of my home training on sundays.

I like to start the sunday morning with some running in the parc, nothing serious...just 3-4 kilometers.

Hope it will go better soon because I can feel my longues burning while running

[Jan-san]

my workout looks similar to yours. But mine includes some weight training at the gym. I would prefer privat lessons to... But there is no way to get some at this time.


Hope you get it done the way you want.

[Paedde]

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Tonight we had 2 classes, a lower belt (mostly for kids) and a higher belt class, I trained in both as usual.

In the first hour we just did Taikyoku Ichi and Ni and learned the techniques for the next examinations. (Note: Some things in Kihon are really ridiculous, I think kyokushin would need an update... Everything is different from Kumite...)

In the second hour we went through the kicks, just one by one and no combinations. It was a bit boring just walking up and down, but that doesn't matter. After we went through Pinan 1-4, but I just know number one so I tried to remember as much as I can from the other 3.

The training wasn't very exciting today, maybe it is just because I prefer Kumite.

Wasn't what I expected and I feel a bit sad, I hope I can write better reports soon

And if someone can explain why we train Kihon in the way we do, please share your wisdom with me... I understand and like Kata and Kumite, and I like Bunkai/Self Defence and Sparring/Combos. But walking and punching/kicking in a way you should't do in a fight... I just can't understand it (yet).

PS: My knuckles started bleeding again while doing push up's, I think I need to start a bit easier on the heavy bag. Note: Just working on kicks at the bag tomorrow)

[seienchin]

Paedde

Here is how it was explained to me.

When you learn to write, you first learn big clumsy movements. The way we teach a little 5 year-old to write the letter R is not at all how an adult does it. The same with other letters. Their movements are initially clumsy and poorly controlled, but we keep putting them through the exercises and drills of writing big letters, with strokes to make them gain control over time.

Over the next few years, they learn to connect letters up, and slowly their writing becomes smaller and more efficient.

Eventually, by the time the child has been writing for about 7 or 8 years, their writing becomes fluent and smooth- just like an adult's. They can adapt and move, write with different pens, on different surfaces, and even have enough control to reasonably easily write foreign languages and scripts (but the latter still needs practise).

Kyokushin is no different. The big clumsy movements of basics are training your muscles in the correct ways of moving, so then when you swing into kumite, they are strong and ready, and will react the right way without you even knowing. Working to gain speed in the clumsy stances and movements, means that when you move into kumite, you will be really, really fast. You don't use kihon in kumite (generally), but your muscles remember what they have been trained to do, and seem to adapt the movements to the context of kumite very, very well.

It has worked for generations of karateka. I have actually never (AND I MEAN NEVER) seen a REALLY good fighter who does not have blisteringly good basics.

So treasure your basics. They are one of the fundamentals that set karate out from styles that don't do basics, and are the reason that the majority of our students actually end up pretty damn good at punching and kicking. (a far higher success rate than styles that don't do basics, I think).

[Paedde]

Thank you

[hasbeen]

very well explained seinchin!!