[quote]Elaikases wrote:
Moved lifts went well. New log sheets, some small modifications.
Things are really busy. Bought a house, sold a house (gee, thing hadn’t been on the market 24 hours when we got an offer at our asking price).
Busy.
Today’s my wedding anniversary. Since I bought the wife a new house, in return she is having us celebrate with a karate workout.
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That is awesome. Glad you were able to move it so quickly. Happy anniversary to you both.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Happy anniversary E. Way to hit a homer on the house. sounds like you and the wife are going to have a lot of fun!
EDIT Now go out and buy some brand new solid hardwood furniture so you can help out some poor sawmill guys!! Yes its a shameless plug…[/quote]
Lots of hardwood in my future I’m afraid, the wife has made me throw away the old shelving …
Good things happen to good people. Happy anniversary and many more.
Wow
that was fast, good luck with the new place…
kmc
Got lifts in, except the back machine. Instead I did a bunch of deadlift/farmer’s walks (well, I picked up boxes filled with books and carried them to the garage).
Both houses have passed inspections. Looks like ours will close three days before the one we are buying. Finally met the buyers, neat people.
My wife is already starting a shopping list for updating the kitchen on the place we are buying 
Don’t tell her, but I love her dearly. It would be hard to imagine a better friend and lover. She has been better than I had ever dreamed possible.
Anyway, she is at work, so it is safe to post the truth about her, as she doesn’t visit here and won’t see me typing.
Another Wado Ryu work-out. Looks like I will be promoted in rank this week. Nothing significant, I’m years away from regaining my old levels of performance.
I’m currently really focused on getting the basics down the correct way.
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
Another Wado Ryu work-out. Looks like I will be promoted in rank this week. Nothing significant, I’m years away from regaining my old levels of performance.
I’m currently really focused on getting the basics down the correct way.[/quote]
Give it a few months and it’ll come back, Elaikeses!
Does your Dojo hold group rank exams or does your Sensei promote based on performance in class?
Usually they promote based on tests. However, ten years ago I was an i-kyu in Shotokan. We were doing some drills and the head instructor pulled me out last night, ran me through a bunch of kihon and suggested that I might be better off starting several kyu up from the white belt I had on. When I looked uncomfortable, he said he could understand my wanting to get better founding in their basics and I’d be promoted to Orange belt this coming Thursday.
They do just about everything a little different here and there. I know five ways to load a side thrust kick, they do a sixth, I’m familiar with about three or four stance shifts with block to reverse punch, they do a different one. You know what I’m talking about.
They enough kata bunkai to fill three or four books on each kata. They perform several complete kata with all the bunkai and two partners on tests (I got to see a Yellow Belt test the other night). They generally take about a year to get to orange (based on the Orange Belts I know), and I understand why.
I really like them and my wife loves them. It is a great club, I’m in it for the long haul, so I don’t mind working basics, especially as my wife is a lot further out of shape than I am (last time she trained seriously was about twenty or twenty-five years ago).
http://www.planodojo.com/index.cfm?page=12 for their rank requirements. They use all the Japanese routinely, and about 75% of the Japanese terms they use are the alternative ones (e.g. I’d use Yoi for ready stance, they would use Hachiji Dachi).
I figure it will be a year or more before I have flexibility back. At least I’m used to loading roundhouse kicks the way they do once they’ve taught it (I learned to load all of my kicks that way for sparring purposes) and I’ve done the KyoshunKai drills with the blade edge of the shin for kicking, but dang, they have a comprehensive kihon.
If I hadn’t had a couple-three years of JuJitsu back in the early 80s to go with my Judo background, I’d be really lost.
Not to mention, when I started out it was just white, brown and black belts.
Longer answer than you asked as a question. Short answer, almost always promotion by public tests. Even if it is just one person for a low belt. In my case, based on performance in class and in an interview.
The rest of the times I suspect it will be based on public tests.
Since I’m in it for exercise and the long haul, I don’t mind taking it slow. I’d much rather be at a lower belt than my skill indicates than at a higher one. I’m too old to act like an idiot and I want to learn it their way, if that makes sense.
Cool - sounds like a great dojo. I completely understand your position on taking it slow and coming up to speed.
Glad that you and your wife can share this experience all over again.
Head instructor didn’t make it Thursday. Well, I can wait.
Went out with my oldest’s ex-boyfriend and helped him with his lifting.
Also got my Saturday lifts in.
Hip Adduction
350 lb x 10 reps, -7 reps (the karate is affecting me).
Hip Abduction
350 lb x 9 reps, +5 lb, -2 reps
Shoulder Cable Fly
65 lb x 12 reps, +2.5 lb.
I could feel that. I think I’m going to cut back on weight and increase reps or something. This is just for rotator cuff rehab.
Dip Machine
250 lb x 8 reps, I think my form is hurting, I’m going to dial back a little and get belted in better to hold better form.
Seated row
235 lb x 8 reps, +2.5 lb
Bodyweight dip
x13 … same
Cable Curl
147.5 x 8 … +2.5 lb
Face Pull Cable Row
187.5 lb x 8 reps. Pops the knots out of the inside of my shoulders when I do it.
Back Extension
335 lb x 10 reps
Abdominal Board
+30 lb x 10 reps.
I’ve switched the order I do them in.
Felt good. We close on selling our house Feb 13 and close on buying the replacement on Feb 16, move on March 7.
Dang, that was fast.
I can see why your house sold so fast … I took the virtual tour and it’s gorgeous! Your NEW house must be even more stunning!
Have fun packing to move! (Better you than me!)
Cappy
[quote]Capacity wrote:
I can see why your house sold so fast … I took the virtual tour and it’s gorgeous! Your NEW house must be even more stunning!
Have fun packing to move! (Better you than me!)
Cappy[/quote]
Thanks.
The new house will need new ovens and a new dishwasher My wife had me take her out to start looking today instead of getting an extra lift in.
But yes, it is very nice. Being that it is Texas, the old one sold for about 230k, the new one is only about 320k. Makes me glad I’m not trying to buy a house in Los Angeles.
Best of all, the school is better and they have the programs my youngest needs. Otherwise I’d have objected to the entire process.
Sounds like a great deal all around E!
[quote]soldog wrote:
Sounds like a great deal all around E![/quote]
It is. Spent the first part of the week in Connecticut, got to bed at about 1:00 a.m. due to bad weather and in flight delays, was terribly tired, but I made my first work-out of the week (other than treadmills in the hotel’s exercise room) and it was good to have gone. Was also promoted then.
Good to be home. I really like the dojo and the people. Tomorrow I get to hit the weights, then pick up my eldest for a quick visit back from college (she wants to see the new house).
Got my lifts in on Saturday. Was feeling blah until I got to my face pull rows. Got a PR there that felt really good.
Closed on selling our house and buying the new one today.
Looking good all in all.
Wado went well last night.
I’m about thirty pounds lighter (all missing fat) than I was when I was training before, ten years older and my flexibility is a lot less.
Lots of changes in the kihon as well (another set of shifting stances to boot). And basic drill type katas before the standard set.
All of which have significant rather than cosmetic changes.
I’m going to change up some parts of my work-out. I suspect that it will be a long while before I take up Judo again, if ever, given my age and the amount there is to do to get a handle on Wado Ryu.
I don’t need the rotational strength I was working on, though I do want to keep up the rotator cuff exercises that I had moved to the off set.
And I can confess that osoto makikomi is one techinque I’ve never used in sparring or competition, though using it for my avatar is a great bit of misdirection.
rotator cuff work is good to keep in.
I’m so glad that the house sale and purchase went so quickly and smoothly for you.
Planning to up your training frequency if the judo is going away?
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
I’m going to change up some parts of my work-out. I suspect that it will be a long while before I take up Judo again, if ever, given my age and the amount there is to do to get a handle on Wado Ryu.
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When you say this do you mean formal training or totally? Are you talking about just judo or all your martial training?
Did a lot of catching up here, took awhile. If you need a pet for the new place? I’m pretty well trained, in most ways…
Someone said “good things for good people”. That’s dam right I’d say. Glad I got back in touch with your thread, and keep up the fighting arts (it keeps us young I think).