I’ve moved…

http://secretkarateka.blogspot.com/

No, I’ve not given up already.

Despite the lack of updates, I’ve not given up on karate or this weblog. It’s just I’ve not been able to update the blog because I haven’t done that much training because I’ve been away on business. Yes, rather annoyingly, the day job has got in the way of myKarate training.

However I’m setting off for training in a few minutes, so I thought I better update the blog before I go. I’ll write a bigger update then.

Why keep it a secret?

There is an interesting article on martialdevelopment.com on why Karateka may need to conceal their secret Karate identity.

http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/conceal-your-secret-karate-identity/

Grading

So it was a grading last Friday, and I graded for my Orange Belt (along with my son and niece), as usual I was extremely nervous, it also didn’t help when my Gi pants started to fall down. I’ve recent got a new Gi and it’s one of those heavier ones, and I still haven’t got the hang of it. It seems to by much bigger than my old Gi despite the label claiming it is the same size and it feels twice as heavy, but as I’ve just mentioned the main problem is with the pants which are very difficult to keep tight and seem to work there way lose a lot especially in line when we are doing kicks.

started to do it. I also asked for my Anyway back to the grading, as I said I was nervous despite the fact I’d not been thinking or worrying about doing this grading before I Started. I did however ask for instructions in English as when I grade I usually completely forget any Japanese I’ve ever heard.

I rushed through Pinan Shodan Kata on autopilot and I was so surprised when I get to the end, I didn’t know if I’d missed any moves out and while thinking about that I screwed up the final move.

Thankfully I didn’t need to grade on my partner techniques as I’d been observed doing this during training earlier that week. If I had to do them during grading I definitely would screw them up.

Anyway we found out later that day, that we all passed out gradings.

The secret dairy of a thirty something Karateka.

Hello all, and welcome to my blog. I’m the Secret Karateka.

I created this blog to document and track my progress in Karate, while keeping this a secret from the majority of my friends.

My family know and a couple of Friends know that I’m a Karateka, but the vast majority of people including my closest Friends and work colleagues do not know.

Earlier this year I started to go to Karate just to take my son and niece, but after a few week I thought I should join in as it seemed like fun, and since then I’ve been hooked.