Friday, July 30, 2010

Black Belt; the Karate journey has just begun.

June 22, 2010 by Doug  
Filed under General

First, let me back up to the beginning of June….. It was a week before my Karate examination for Shodan and I made sure that I did everything I could to take my black belt on the day of my exam. I trained harder than ever before. I did over 300 katas in the two [...]

How to bow.

June 4, 2008 by Doug  
Filed under Karate how to

In the advanced Karate class that I take with Sensei Cieplik, we always begin in seiza, after that, everyone stands up and we do a quick, two second or so, bow to Sensei Cieplik. We have been doing this for some time now but in a recent class, he mentioned that if we are going [...]