What Is A Typical Class For You ?

[Tiger1962]

For all styles: what is a typical class like for you in the style you train in ?

I know every class might be different, but more or less, from start to finish....give an example.

On an ordinary day, mine could go like this:

Warm-ups

Drills

Form practice

Self Defense Techniques

Sparring

The last three not necessarily in that order.

[tallgeese]

Good question.

Warm up. Run or mitts

Mitt work and/or kicking shield work

Skill building work on either:

trapping/clinching

striking strategy

ground fighting

small joint manip.

weapons

live training including either (or more):

sd sim training

sparring of some sort

free roll

kind of depends on who's in class and what we all feel like doing.

[bushido_man96]

TKD class

Basics (anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the pace; usually the same set for every class)

Forms (start with white belts, and work up in rank; I stretch during this time)

One-steps

Sparring

Hapkido class

This is a bit more free flowing. Ideally, though:

Basics (Strikes and kicking combinations on mitts for each rank; bagwork for kicks as well)

Breakfalls

Technique work from curriuclum

Advanced stuff, like trapping, adding in other impromptu attacks, etc.

Aikido

Stretching

Aikitaisos

Breakfalls

Technique work

Jari waza/randori

Edited April 3, 2009 by bushido_man96

[Rateh]

Bow in with short meditation

Warm-up (different every day)

Stretching

More warm-up usually (basic sparring techniques from a fighting stance, or traditional techniques from a horse stance)

Maybe some sort of practice with the entire class (basics down the floor, forms, bag work, sparring, etc.)

Usually at some point we split by ranks and work on testing requirements

Rarely we get back together as a whole group and do another drill/activity

Then bow out

Really very unstructured as far as regularity. You never know what will be done in any specific class. We do have cards that we have to take out for each class, where instructors sign off what stuff they have worked with you on. That way the instructor for that class can just look at the cards and decide from there what he or she wants to do for that day.

[ps1]

Warm Up:

light jog

hip escape drills

rolls

sit outs

stretching

Total: 15 minutes

Drills:

We teach three to four techniques and practice each one around 10 to 15 times per person.

Total: 1 hour

Open Mat:

Free rolling/ randori

Total: 45 min. to 2 hours (you leave anytime you want here)

Total class time=2 to 4 hours, depending on how long a person chooses to free roll.

[DWx]

Depends which class I go to:

Thurs class (1st hour is sparring and fitness for any grade, 2nd hour is a blackbelt technical session)

warm up - jogging, sit ups, press ups, squats, light punching and kicking etc. sometimes have to run around the field instead if its dry enough

sparring - do drills on pads or against a partner before going into a free sparring mode

fitness and cardio work - involves lots of sprinting, skipping and bodyweight exercises

cool down at end of 1st session

warm up again for 2nd class

mainly involves patterns and sometimes step sparring application work

squad session (3hrs):

warm up - same as above but tends to be a higher intensity

patterns - spend about 1hr working as an individual and on team

sparring - good hr drilling combinations on pads then time after that to put it into practice in free sparring

cardio/endurance - lots of sprinting and bodyweight exercises

cool down

Uni Club (2hr):

warm up - lots of running around

line work - usually a couple of techniques and combos, sometimes against pads

then we do one or two forms and a bit of free sparring before cooling down

[Tiger1962]

TKD class

Basics (anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the pace; usually the same set for every class)

Forms (start with white belts, and work up in rank; I stretch during this time)

One-steps

Sparring

Hapkido class

This is a bit more free flowing. Ideally, though:

Basics (Strikes and kicking combinations on mitts for each rank; bagwork for kicks as well)

Breakfalls

Technique work from curriuclum

Advanced stuff, like trapping, adding in other impromptu attacks, etc.

Aikido

Stretching

Aikitaisos

Breafalls

Technique work

Jari waza/randori

You got your hands full there, eh ?

[Truestar]

We split belts up into 6 classes based on 6 different stripes for each belt leve below junior black. They vary from breaking (re breakables), technique, sparring, and dynamic performance/physical development.

If stripe work gets to monotonous and redundant, we'll have a mixed class. Each class always starts with a warm up and stretching. The combo classes focus on form, grappling and sparring.

[white owl]

It really depends on what day of the week it is but here I go:

Warm ups

little cardio or endurance training

pad hitting or bag hitting

partner drills or praticing kata's or stance drills or break falling or practicing self defense

sparring (it could be point sparring or kick boxing or boxing or sparring for rounds or grapple sparring)

[bushido_man96]

TKD class

Basics (anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the pace; usually the same set for every class)

Forms (start with white belts, and work up in rank; I stretch during this time)

One-steps

Sparring

Hapkido class

This is a bit more free flowing. Ideally, though:

Basics (Strikes and kicking combinations on mitts for each rank; bagwork for kicks as well)

Breakfalls

Technique work from curriuclum

Advanced stuff, like trapping, adding in other impromptu attacks, etc.

Aikido

Stretching

Aikitaisos

Breafalls

Technique work

Jari waza/randori

You got your hands full there, eh ?

It really isn't too bad. I do one Combat Hapkido class on Monday mornings right now, I got to TKD 2 days a week, and I attend Aikido on Saturday mornings, if nothing else is going on.