Thing One's report: Karate class
by Thing One
Editor’s note: Thing One has been taking karate classes this summer.
This week in karate class we had a tip test, where you show the instructor moves you had recently learned and have a tip added your belt. When you get your second tip added to your belt, you go up a rank.
For the test, you first got into an attention stance (where you stand up straight) and bow to the instructor. You then get into a ready stance, and then another stance saying Ke’i, a Japanese word about strength or power, holding our hands up to protect the brain. Then we did a jab (a front hand punch), a cross, (back hand punch) and a rear leg roundhouse kick, where you kick with your leg in the back and got into a horse stance. And then we slid up standing up straight while holding your hand out, and then did a side kick where you kicked with your front leg sideways, and then back to a horse stance and knelt down and did a cross saying Ke’i!
We also did an obstacle coarse called the Death Star Destroying where we tried to get a ring over a manikin and then we went through a mini maze and went up a ramp pad and a flat pad and through a few weight masters as instructors threw pads and beach balls at us and threw a Ninja Turtles ball in a square of tape and got back in line to do it again while the Star Wars music was playing.
It is fun to do karate because the games are fun and it’s also good exercise.
