Cedar Ridge Shotokan Workshop Demo

Here is a video of the Karate Team performing Heian Godan for the parent seminar yesterday morning. Several of the parents commented on how much crisper the karate looked...yesssssss!

Shihan Cyrus Madani Seminar

On Thursday, December 3rd and Friday, December 4th we had all day training and a tournament with our dojo and Shihan Madani. On Thursday we started karate at 9:00 am and we trained until 12:00 p.m. and we all learned new and different training methods. After lunch we had a karate tournament with the students in our dojo who wanted to participate. We all had a lot of fun and all enjoyed ourselves. On Friday we started training at 9:00 a.m. and we finished around 12:00. I know that personally I learned a lot about what I needed to change and what I need to work on to start perfecting my karate and working on my kyu exam requirements.

MADANI

Shihan Madani was awesome!!! I loved it!! He was very nice and he knew a lot about karate. He was a 7th Dan black belt!!! I did a lot of endurance training. My favorite part was his warm up. We ran around the gym and did a workout that was pretty hard. My legs still hurt from the squat jumps we did. I'm pretty bummed that I didn't get to compete in our in-house tournament. I had to go to town to do some stuff and that had to be during our tournament. But overall it was way fun and I learned a lot--and the T-shirts were way cool!!!! I give thanks to Christine for bringing Shihan Madani to our Dojo.
- Alexander the Great

Karate at its Finest

The Madani Seminar... where to begin. I got in the Dojo to see to new faces. Sensei McGavin and Shihan Madani. The warm ups were... different. We did the usual ones, then we ran around the gym for about 20 minutes doing the grapevine, punching, jumping, etc, etc. Then we learned new techniques and just cool things we've heard of, but never really been taught. Having the Shihan here was both exciting and insightful. I enjoyed every second of it. I even kept my cool during the tournament.
Like Shihan told us--a black belt costs $5. A Black Belt is a mind set, a true Black Belt comes within.
-Drama Queen

Shihan Madani

Osss! I pick up Shihan Madani tomorrow afternoon as our teaching guest for the next two days. Shihan has years of extensive experience--scroll through some of the older blogs for a link to his bio--and he is coming here to share it with us. Not all of the students have signed up. The cost is $50 and includes a t-shirt. This is a great price for such an event.

The tournament we went to in Salt Lake City a couple of weekends ago was a USANKF tournament hosted by an IMA affiliated dojo, IMA Utah, and it was exciting for us to have such solid expectations and good competition. We were very happy with the judging and with all of the people we met there.

I saw many people I trained with when I lived in Salt Lake City a few years ago. It was nice to get so many hugs. Those people are some I consider to be part of my karate family, and I am invested in building a greater karate family for our students.

Shihan is also bringing a sensei out of Colorado whom I met in Keystone and who was a judge at the IMA tournament. Sensei McGavin is a great teacher and will add a lot of depth to our seminar and tournament here this week. You can see a bit of his dojo at www.northforkkarate.com.

Stay posted for blog posts and pictures. I know I still have to post the results from Salt Lake City--I will get it up here!