Karate Goals for 2008

As we enter the new year, all of us at Austin Okinawan Karate are making goals for our karate training for 2008. Here are mine:

  • Lift weights three days per week
  • Drop my body fat percentage from 26% to 22%
  • Restart my karate/personal blog (hey, here it is!)
  • Bring six potential students to class over the next year
  • Perform nine kata per day (three times kata of the month, three times one empty hand, three times one weapon)
  • Start a lunch-time karate class at work (probably just starting one day a week for this one)
  • Build a makiwara in the back yard
  • Take a kata (starting with a basic one) and prepare an instruction book for it using digital photos and available desktop publishing software (probably Scribus)
  • Work out at least one day a week with my son, Matt (who’s getting ready to test for his brown belt)
  • Arrange a first aid class for the Austin instructors

In addition, I will be testing for my Sandan, or third-degree black belt, this year. That was one of my goals for last year, but instead we had multiple pre-tests to prepare, and have the test scheduled for February 23rd.

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