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.