Osaka Sensei does open his hands when transitioning to the high low blocks. He is transitioning from a punching position to the high low blocks (which are closed fist for those of you that are not karate people) so quickly that it is easy to miss. It happens so quickly that I had a hard [...]

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Tonight, Garls-san and Erbe-san took the class through a nice test preparation class. Meanwhile, , McCabe, , and I went into the gym and did kata. I got eight Sochin done before it was time for the test. It was nice to be able to get back into the kata… the brief break that I [...]

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