Class Log, Oct. 18th 2007

Eric taught. We did the usual stretches and warm-upu kicks up the floor. We did a cool new combination kick up the floor: turning back kick, round house kick, jumping roundhouse towards the back. We worked on the back wheel, back whip, jumping half moon, and front whip. Next week we'll try to cover the newer kicks.

Class Log, Oct. 11th 2007

Angela Taught. We did extra stretches on the floor for our back. We did some exercises for preparing kicks and loosening our shoulders. We did a few back wheels.

Class Log, Oct. 4th 2007

Katie taught. We continued working on punches. We worked on all the forms. We practiced backwheels.

Class Log Thursday Sept. 27, 2007

Eric Taught. We worked on punches, and also turning back kicks to target. We also worked on backwheels to target.

Video Links to our forms

Master Hariramani has posted links to our forms here. http://www.jdkacademy.com/members/cmanual/index.php
Speaking of which, we had a question about palgue Chil Jang. We had asked if the half mountain was in back stance, and according to the book it was, but we had foggy memories. After looking at the manual and the video, and the PDF of the video, it appears that we ARE in back stance for the half mountain. So that's one mystery cleared up.

Class Log Sept. 20

Katie taught. We did stretches and kicks. We went over the details of the last form, mostly Palgue Chil Jang, and we also did some back wheel kicks. We worked on Single Middle Punches 30 Count.

Class Log Sept. 13

Angela Taught. We went over the middle forms (Sa Jang to Oh Jang). We worked mainly on stances and preparations. We worked on Single Middle Punches 30 Count.

Class Log Sept. 6

Eric Taught. We did the usual stretches and kicks. We worked on basic movements in the forms, focusing on stances and preparations.

Class Log July 19, 2007

Angela Taught. We did kicking combinations:
roundhouse kick, turning sidekick, knifehand strike
jumping side kick, front kick, turning sidekick
We worked on backwheel kicks.
We worked on attack-counter attacks.

Class Log July 5th, 2007

Angela Taught. We worked on kicking combinations (turning back kick, half moon, side kick) and (turning back kick, roundhouse and sidekick). We worked on our turning kicks (back wheel, back whip) and also our front whips and half moons. We also worked on our new kicks (jumping back wheel, jumping back whip).

We've been focusing on getting the mechanics down so that the kicks are accurate and controllable. With the back wheel and jumping back wheel, we are still working on just getting comfortable dipping and lifting our knee up earlier. With the front whip, pulling your shoulder forward with the kick before flicking it across makes a big impact. With the jumping turn kicks, we are still getting used to the feeling of jumping and kicking.

For my back whips, I need to work on not walking and concentrate on spinning on center, instead of walking forward.
Eric's back whips look great! The spinning breakdowns that we've been doing before these kicks have really improved the control and power. We'll plan on doing back wheels every class.

Class Log June 29, 2007

It's been a while since we've updated the class log. This week Eric taught. We worked on our kicks, jumping and spinning kicks.

For the front whip, we found that turning the shoulder of the kicking leg forward helped the front whip kicks be stronger. The commitment of having the body towards the front makes it easier to whip the hips.

The second take-away was breaking down the spinning kicks so that we are comfortable with our bodies dipped. We are still working on our spins.

Running jumping sidekicks were kicks we hadn't done in a while. We're picking it up and working on our timing and jumping high before the kick. The left legs are still harder to lead with than the right leg.

Class Log March 15, 2007

We worked on turning back kicks down the floor, we also worked on attack counter attacks. We worked on jumping in preparation for the new jump kicks. We worked on our old advanced kicks: jumping half moon, front whip, crescent kick. We worked on the new form.

Class Log March 8th, 2007

Katie Taught. We worked on attack counter attacks:
* side-kick attack to round-house/double knifehand attack
* roundhouse attack to jumping-side-kick/elbow strike
* jumping-side-kick to step to side+(front kick/front whip/reverse punch)
We went over the form, and are all remembering the steps.

Class Log March 1, 2007

We worked at the MIT A center, and worked mainly on jumping back wheels and jumping back whips. We did turning back sidekicks to target up and down the floor. We worked some one attack-counterattack (discussed the use of elbow attack as a counter attack), and also refreshed ourselves on some self-defense techniques (such as when you are grabbed from behind or someone grabs your belt).

Class Log Feb. 22nd, 2007

Angela taught. We worked on the back wheel and back whip kicks. We worked on jumping.

Class Log Feb. 15th, 2007

Katie taught. Stretches. We worked on back wheel kicks, jumping for jumping back wheels, jumping back whips. We worked on Palgue Chil Jang. We discussed some of the strategies for attack counter attacks.

Katie discovered a good thing about jumping back kicks. If we make sure to get a lot of height (jump straight up and down as much as we can), our balance is a lot better. So jumping like a frog is a good idea.

Class Log Feb. 8th, 2007

Angela Taught. Counting in Korean. We worked on kicking combinations, and also targeting turning back kicks up and down the floor. We ran around the room and did some exercises to jump-start our heart rates. We worked on the new form.

Class Log Feb. 1st, 2007

Eric taught. We worked on back wheels, did a series of turning back kicks down the floor. We ran around the room and jumped over obstacles to increase our heart rate. We worked on attack counter-attacks for twist-kick, side-kick and round-house attack. We worked on jumping 360 for the jumping back wheel and jumping back whips.

Class Log Jan. 25th, 2007

Angela Taught. We worked on extra stretching before the back wheels to increase flexibility. Some of us were sore from various other activities (Katie has been practiciing for a stair challenge at work, Eric was back from skiing the weekend before). We worked on targeting to turning back kicks. We worked on combination kicks down the floor. We worked on jumping 360 for the jumping back wheels and jumping back whips.

Class Log Jan. 18th, 2007

Today Eric taught. Worked on 30 punches.
For kicking combos, today we did
o side kick, turning side kick, round house down the center of the room
o crescent kick, swan-side-kick, turning-back knifehand, front whip kick down the center of the room
We worked on jumping 360 degrees to work on our new jumping kicks. We did around 10 or so on each side.
We worked on Palgue Chil Jang. Getting faster at remembering all the moves. Need to work on the last few steps after the half mountain pose.
Worked on back wheel and back whip kicks to target.
We worked on turning-side kicks to targets while moving across the room. Determined to target/distance yourself first then kick.
We worked on the distances in attack-counter-attack with
o side kick attack to round house, then
o sidekick attack to twist kick.
Next class, we'll count in Korean.

Class Log Jan 11, 2006

Congratulations to everyone for doing well on the 3rd Gup Exam. We all broke our boards within the first 2 tries and those four broken boards make good trophies. We'll be working hard on that triple board turning-back sidekick break for the next exam.
Today Angela taught. We worked on stretching out our sore muscles and doing flexibility stretches against the wall. We went over the new form a few times, just practicing the steps. We did some practice jumping in preparation for doing jumping-backwheels and jumping-backwhips. We practiced 360 degree jumps, keeping our stance a little narrower than regular fighting stance.
We discussed things we learned during the exam:
o upper knifehand block
o mountain pose
o half-mountain pose
Also remember the free fighting techniques we learned: using combinations, not getting interrupted, and starting thinking about using multiple opponents against each other.