Dianna

I have been knocked down by the flu since Thursday night and so there has been no practice and it is killing me. I have to make it to class tomorrow so hopefully since my kids are at school I can rest enough today to have my body heal more. Better but my body can't handle anything right now. Going to be missing weapons tonight.

I do need the mental strength for sure. My mind likes to take over what my body knows and aren't staying in sync.

Doesn't sound mad at all. Thanks for the tip. Gotta try and see if I fall over with my eyes closed lol

Nope, no giving up allowed Can't stop trying.

[quote name="Hawkmoon" almost! Mai Keage - is a stiff leg kick using the whole leg as if one solid piece. The knee does not bend. Take a long stance (formal stance) In my ryu of Karate' date=' Kyokushinkai this stance is called Zen Kutsu Dachi, (other systems may have a different name.) It looks like this: http://www.karatetest.com/kyokushinkai/10thkyu/zen-kutsu-dachi-25.htm The kick, well this is a Yoko Keage: (easier to see the 'stiff leg movement') http://www.karatetest.com/kyokushinkai/7thkyu/sokuto-yoko-keage-72.htm The host site is: https://www.karatetest.com Its a good site as it covers Kyokushin karate the art I study, I use it as a reminder of what this or that is. The important point is the movement from the full formal stance to the high kick, so you were close but its the whole movement rather then to just kick that is important here. [/quote] Thanks for the links. Awesome site!

I do a lot of kicks. Every day through out the day, or I will never get them right. When I do them, for every 10 I do with my right leg, I do(or try to get to 20 with my left since it is not my dominate leg) When you say "still kick/kearge" I am guessing(and totally could be wrong), meaning, just standing and kicking? If so I do that a lot to work on form. If I am not getting in the right number of chambers and feet where they should be doing them them fast, and mix with other movements won't do me any good. Find it harder to do them just standing and slow, I can sure feel it when it is done.

Planks I am doing, but not reserve so will do that. Will have to look up kettlebell swings and burpees. Good to know I am doing them too much. Was what my husband suggested, now I get to tell him he was wrong LOL Thanks for the links, will check them out.

Ok, I have no strength in my abs. We do sit ups where you are flat on the floor and you sit up without bending knees or using arms, I can't even do one. I know come Dec when I belt test those are done, with other exercises that Sensei has everyone do at the start. I have been doing crunches and regular sit ups(only can do with feet under the sofa). What do I need to to do to strengthen my abs? I try to make sure I do this twice a day, some days I only get in once. I do sets of 30 about 3 times. Any advice would be great. I hate being in class when we are warming up and not being able to do the situps. Drives me insane.

Working a lot on flexibility and strengthening my core and then of course balance. I am the type of person who can fall over standing still lol

Just can't come too fast. I have my own goals of where I need to be by then above what I have to do to test.

If it was up to me I would be there with no doubt, but my husband says we can't swing it. Kills me we are having camp at our dojo too and I can't do it. Not much money but no one to watch my kids. I know I could get so much from both.

They had their test, did awesome. I don't test till Dec. Seems so far away but that is fine because I want to do my best, if I don't do my best no reason to do it.

Yeah learned my mistake with that one for sure. They did great. Now to start working toward next test. My husband's usually does pics and vids but his phone died.

Will be interesting to see what happens

My 5 year old twins tested for the first time yesterday. So they now have the Little Dragons white belt that has the purple stripe through it. So proud of them. So mad at myself. Took tons of videos and my finger was over the microphone the whole time LOL