On Saturday I was very busy. I went to two karate classes in the morning. One was regular class and the second was weapons. Then in the afternoon I went to Juneteenth Festival at Black Miner Bar. It was an interesting festival with food vendors, vendors selling clothes, jewelry, purses, hats, etc, horseback riding, kayak […]
Last thursday I received the black stripe on my belt. This means that I am now officially doing my black belt test. It feels crazy to see how far I have progressed since I began karate back in 2016. Then I was some 8 year old kid who wanted to learn some self defense, and […]
Written by Jake Ross
Backtracking a little, I sprained my knee back in January. I started running a few months ago, just short jogs. This last week I tried to do some sprint work and my knee started aching. I was trying to figure out what was wrong. I broke down my stride. It’s hard for me to lengthen […]
Written by Elizabeth Clark
During the second semester, finals week starts on a friday since the school year ends on a thursday. This year the first finals day was periods 1 and 6, which was spanish and history for me. During spanish we did nothing since we had already done our final. I basically just watched netflix/youtube for the […]
Written by Jake Ross
After returning from socal, both my mom and my aunt got sick. Not really sure what it was, it may have been covid, but we aren’t sure. Because of this, I couldn’t go to my dad’s house on that saturday like I usually do. On the following sunday (6/9) there was an f1 race, which […]
Written by Jake Ross
I was golfing with a friend of mine and he told me that a fundamental of the game is “always have a target”. Of course, in golf, it is crucial to always be aiming your shot at something and hoping the ball goes to where you want it to go. Otherwise, if the focus is […]
Written by Matt Nedresky
I have a fear of failure about sparring. I often struggle and have a hard time sparring. It is the part of karate I most doubt myself. So many types of attacks and scenarios coming at me all at once. It is hard to react and counter so quickly. I try to not freeze up, […]
Written by Elan Wilbur
Every year and over all the summers since I was in 7th grade all my friends would go to the American river to swim and hangout. We would go as much as 2 times a week. We just loved swimming and being at a beach since we aren’t close enough to an actual beach. We […]
Written by Brody Hocking
IMG_2823 The tournaments that are hosted at my dojo are really fun and I think I only missed a couple since I started at the dojo almost 8 years ago. They are smaller than other tournaments hosted in high schools but they are a good size just for practice tournaments. Sometimes they are a little […]
Written by Brody Hocking