On Saturday the Karate Team went down to Salt Lake City to train with Sensei Amadou. He had come down to Cedar Ridge a few months earlier to do a workshop with the whole campus so most of us were familiar with him. We left at 8a.m. and all piled into the Yukon to drive down. After the three hour drive, we stopped at Costco to get pizza for lunch. After we had all eaten, we got back into the car to drive down to the dojo. For the first two hours, we watched Christine train and could tell that this was going to be a hard workout. We started our workout with the warm ups, and then Amadou said he'd be teaching us 20 of their sparring techniques that they do at their dojo. I was really excited because I haven't been able to have much sparring lately. It started off pretty easy with different combinations of punches, kicks, and blocks. As the hour went on, I soon realized that this wouldn't be as easy as I thought it was going to be. Everyone started to get tired and Amadou asked "Are you getting tired?" We all responded no because we knew that if we said yes then we'd have to do jumping jacks or planks. After an exhausting hour and a half and learning all 20 combinations, we finally got a three minute break. We took that break to get a quick drink of water and regain our breath. After our break, we all sat in a circle and did another sparring exercise where two people were in the middle and whoever won the match stayed in the middle while the other one sat down and a new competitor came up. It was cool to watch everyone and learn new styles of sparring. After we had finished and bowed out, we went over to the Chinese Gourmet and ate all the food we could. Then it was off to the Jazz game. We were up in the nosebleeds, but had a pretty good view of the court. The game was really fun to watch. The Jazz beat the Bucks no problem. Overall it was a really fun trip to go on .
--Bug
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