| gasshuku pain
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The gasshuku was the hardest workout i have ever done. It lasted 3 days. It left me sore for three days afterward.
before breakfast we all worked out for an hour. We did basic blocking and punching exercises. Everything had to be perfect. For punishment we had to do 10,000 kick drill. It's squat,kick with left leg then squat kick with right leg. We probably did 200 of those on the first day. Those are leg killers. Did this every morning.
After breakfast we went to the river to work on our stances and stepping. Sanchin stance was the one we worked on most. many times I fell and the water was cold. Kicks in fast moving water was the cause of most of the falls. Did this for 2 days. These lasted about 30 minutes each and did about 8 of them.
On the 2nd day we work on some takedowns in the river. I was the lowest ranking person there my knowledge of the takedowns is limited.
On the last day everyone went to the gym and we prepared for our belt tests. The drills in the gym focus on shiko dachi or, horse stance. Doing that for an hour gets painful. The higher ranking dans helped us kyus work on our testing areas giving us last minute pointers and pointing out everything you are doing wrong. For my belt test i did kata gekisai daini, the bunkai for gekisai daini, sanchin kata, and a kiso.
I passed and got to 6th kyu.
Everyone there also told me this was one of the easiest gasshukus they had been to. Can't wait for next year. |