Author Archives: John Kraft

Been slacking off on the training updates. Here’s the summary for the last 3 nights. Taught all 3 classes tonight. Nothing but stance training. Lots of sweat and shaking legs. Not much else to say about it. Tuesday nights class … Continue reading →

I started my student off last night with front, side, and round kicks on the heavy bag. This was followed by 4 different types of elbow strikes on the heavy bag. Then on to every kata he knows. Afterwards, we … Continue reading →

Tonights training started with front, side, and round kicks on the bag followed by a kata run through. Afterwards, we focused on knees and elbows on the heavy bag. After that we worked on partner drills with the bo. We … Continue reading →

Folks seemed interested, so here’s tonight’s pretest workout… Started with 10 minutes of calisthenics. Next was 100 punches in shiko-dachi. Then 100 stationary front kicks in zenkutsu-dachi. Next was 100 rising block reverse punch combinations in shiko-dachi. Next was 100 … Continue reading →

Tuesday night marked my return to the dojo after a two month absence due to a crazy work schedule. We worked on building muscles required to do round kick. We started with very slow, six count basic round kick. After … Continue reading →