I like to see different senseis that focus more on one thing than the other e.g in one class we focus a lot on kata another class a lot of focus on kumite and self defence and another class focusing on the basics
I love going on a holiday where I'm just calming down for a couple of week, my favorite holiday would be going to spain a family friend has a place that isn't around all the tourists theres a nice big pool and tennis courts which we mostly have to ourself I mean who other than me would play tennis when its over 40 degrees !! Nice family pub place with karoke every night great place to go been there about 3 times loved it hopefully going in 2007!!
I used to be able to do the side split, but when I stopped training for a while, I didn't practice and couldn't do it but now I'm back training in gradually getting there:)
If you want help with learning a kata you could have a look on the unnoffical gkr site https://www.gkrkarate.org I believe and they have footwork charts taking you through each step of the kata there is also information on things like tournaments and useful tips and hints. hope this helps
also a great one is throwing a football in the air and do a jump turn hell kick!! (can't remember what the kick is called) but I tried it once not expecting to hit the ball but i did!! it went well far but hit someones window!! luckily it didn't break:)
I will only be asked to do Taikyoko shodan, Taikyoko nidan and saifa which is the same as what I had to do for my last grading but last time I only had to know the pattern of saifa this time it has to be to a good standard,
shoes!! I'd either take them off for him to smell....big distraction or use them to put on my hands for a chance of blocking, and hope it doesn't rain or i'll have wet feet!!