and other different aspects I enjoy that side of training too. In the day time, I train for me
and at night I try to teach and those who join me during the day, they basically have to just
go along with me.
Well speaking of your own time during the day, are you
training then and do you have a certain routine?
Yes I do. Generally I try and work it so say on a Monday morning I would just go to like a
regular gym and do some cardio training and some weight training and maybe do some
bag work of Kata afterwards. Then Monday night I would teach at the Dojo, which is a senior class, but depending on what we are doing, I’ll try and get involved with the training too.
On Tuesday mornings its the same thing again and some of my students might come and
train with me and I’ll just do my general fitness routine for between 40 minutes to an hour
and then do Karate based training for an hour or even longer if I have something coming up
like a big Gasshuku or I’m off to teach somewhere.
It’s basically the same routine day to day it’s just the training that varies. But I try to keep it
so that my level doesn’t drop, so I never have to struggle to get back to fitness, unless I
have an injury. I always try to keep myself at a reasonable fitness level.
Then on Tuesday nights I teach a beginners class. There are some black belts there, but
they are generally the ones how are back after having some time off and are getting geared
up to return to the senior classes
On Wednesday morning, sometimes I go to a boxing gym and I’ll do basically pad work,
bag work, sparring, etc for a couple of hours. Thursday mornings I train again and I basically follow the same day to day routine again and again. As for the weekends, if I’m not
teaching somewhere, I’ll train again on Saturday and Sunday. This is usually once, sometimes twice just depends on family commitments. If there’s nothing going on or my wife is
away, I’ll go a couple of times.