I’ve published the training calendar for 2012 on the forum, complete with our Queensland Public Holidays and some other reference dates. I’m pleased to announce the date for our Summer training camp on 26 February 2012. We use a Macrocycle training plan, since we continue our karate training throughout the year.  This system allows us to vary [...]

It looks like we’re in for a wet start to summer this year.  I felt the front move in last night and stood outside as the first drops began to fall.  The forecast calls for 26 of the next 28 days to have rain.

The new green space at South Bank park is an amazing place to train.  Rob, Don, Morgan and I catching the early morning sun.   Thanks again Alysha for getting up early and coming out to take the photos for us.  Great job!

We had a bit of fun training in the park this morning… the sprinklers were still running at our usual start time, so we decided to go ahead in spite of the extra watering we would receive. Meditating when the spray comes around was an interesting experience.  The first spray to hit me was on [...]

I’ve been remiss not posting here in the training thread.  I’ll catch up and make a point of keeping this updated.  In fact, I intend to post more regularly in this renamed board.  I’m trying to integrate this section with Facebook, but so far I’m only publish these posts to my personal page, not the [...]

I’m back to training in the early morning (Monday to Friday) at the river front in New Farm park. It feels great to be back in the spot I’ve already put countless hours in my practice.  At this time of year, it is well and truly still dark when I start at 6 am.  Seeing [...]

My new invention: the mobile makiwara. I’ve been without my makiwara post since I move out of New Farm last September, and I sure miss it.  I’ve been pondering how to make a new one I can use in the dojo in Bulimba and at home. I found just the right board washed up on [...]

Friday was the “class of 1,000 punches”.  We had a small class, but everyone completed the punches in the hour. Good stuff!

My senior student and I trained together on the beach this morning.  It was a bit windy and the extra motion added a bit of intensity to the usually calm beach experience. We did a bit of a warm up, then concentrated on some of the pilates core strengthening routines he’s using to rehabilitate a [...]

It felt like a ‘full house’ at the dojo today.  With the two new white belts and my senior student back from his business trip, we had a nice size class to split into two groups to do basic and intermediate techniques.  That keeps me busy, but I still managed to spend most of the [...]