Thesis story
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yonkyuSome words are in Japanese, so beware.
At the lunch table, two friends Jen and Erin sit at the table and talk about karate. Jen is the one that takes karate and tries her best to get Erin to join her one day at karate.
Erin says “I will join you at karate on Tuesday night; I would just need a ride.” Jen is so excited that she replies, “I can have my dad pick you up and we can go together.”
So Tuesday comes and Erin waits for Jen and her dad to come get her to head to karate. They came and picked Erin up and everyone heads to karate in Salem, New Hampshire.
Jen and Erin get out of the car and walk up the stairs to the dojo. A dojo is a place where martial artists gather and practice karate techniques.
Once we are in the dojo, Jen introduces Erin to the instructor Renshi.
They both say “hello” and he writes her name on a sticker that says “hello my name is.” When Renshi is finished writing the name on it he hands it to Erin.
Erin puts it on her shirt so the other students in the class know who she is.
After Erin has her name on her shirt, we started to line up for the class to begin, and Jen stood next to Erin in the back of the class.
All the students line up according to their rank, which is shown by the color belt they wear.
Jen was a brown belt and Erin had no belt at the moment, but will if she were to sign up for karate classes.
At the start of class all the students bow and say “Oni Gani Tanji Mas.” Once this is said class begins.
The whole class gets into a big circle and everyone picks an exercise for the class to do for 30 seconds.
When everyone is done picking an exercise, we line back up by rank, and we stretch our muscles.
After stretching, we break off into groups by the color belts everyone wears.
Erin went to a small area in the class with Jen.
Jen was Erin’s partner and teacher because she brought her to class to learn about karate.
She first went over the numbers in Japanese with her than Jen started teaching me kihon.
The numbers in Japanese are Ichi, Ni, San, Shi, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hachi, Ku, and Ju. Those numbers are 1 through 10.
Then we started going through kihon. Jen tells Erin, “kihon means the basics, which are the basic movements in karate.”
Jen states, “kihon is broken up into 3 parts: blocks, strikes, and kicks.”
“First we will go through the blocks, there are 5 different moves for blocks,” Jen states.
We go over the stances we have to be in when we are doing the blocks from kihon. The first stance is migi sanchindachi.
In this stance we do 3 blocks. They are Age Uke, Yoko Uke, and Joge Uke.
The second stance is migi shikodachi. In this stance we do 2 blocks. They are Gedan Barai and Haraitoshi Uke.
Jen tells Erin, “each block has there own name in Japanese, so lets try going over them and saying them.”
Erin repeats them after Jen, “Age Uke, Yoko Uke, Joge Uke, Gedan Barai, and Haraitoshi Uke.” “The last one is hard to pronounce” states Erin.
Next Jen starts to go over the strikes. There are 6 strikes in hidari sanchindachi, while there are 2 in hidari shikodachi.
Jen says “hidari sanchindachi kame.” Erin quickly moves into position.
Jen tells Erin the strikes are “seiken zuki, ichi, uraken, ni, urauchi, san, hara uchi, shi, furi uchi, go, shuto uchi, roku.” Erin says “those words are not too hard to learn they are easier then the blocks.”
Now that we have those strikes, Jen moves onto the next group of strikes. They are out of hidari shikodachi.
Jen says “hidari skidodachi kame.” Erin moves in horse stance and is ready for the new techniques.
“There are only 2 and they are uraken zuki and tate.”
Erin goes over the blocks and strikes by her self while Jen helps another student for a few minutes.
Jen then comes back to see how Erin is doing. She says “I am doing fine it is just trying to remember the names in Japanese.”
Jen states “yes, I know they are tricky.”
The last group is the kicks. There are 6 kicks and they are all in heidodachi stance.
They 6 kicks are kin geri, mae geri, kansetsu geri, mawashi geri, yoko geri, and ushiro geri.
Jen says “heidodachi kame.” Erin gets into the position and Jen does the different kicks at the same time Erin does hers. Erin tells Jen “I do not like the last kick, ushiro geri; I feel I am going to fall down.”
Jen says “you need to find your balance, then you will not fall down.”
Erin tries to do the kick again and the advice helped a lot. She was able to do the kick with out feeling like she was going to fall. Jen and Erin bow to each other and line back up like at the beginning of class.
The instructor calls “seretsu” and everyone quickly finds there spot to bow out of class.
At the end of class everyone says “Arigato Gazhiamas.”
On this night Erin has her mom sign her up for karate. Erin starts to learn more then kihon and starts learning katas and sparring. She tests for each rank every time there is a test.
Erin has made it to black belt and could not be any happier. She teaches the kids class that ranges from 3-6, 6-8, and 9-12 age groups for karate. Erin loves working with the 6 to 8 year olds the best.
Erin will continue to train and teach at karate.
At the lunch table, two friends Jen and Erin sit at the table and talk about karate. Jen is the one that takes karate and tries her best to get Erin to join her one day at karate.
Erin says “I will join you at karate on Tuesday night; I would just need a ride.” Jen is so excited that she replies, “I can have my dad pick you up and we can go together.”
So Tuesday comes and Erin waits for Jen and her dad to come get her to head to karate. They came and picked Erin up and everyone heads to karate in Salem, New Hampshire.
Jen and Erin get out of the car and walk up the stairs to the dojo. A dojo is a place where martial artists gather and practice karate techniques.
Once we are in the dojo, Jen introduces Erin to the instructor Renshi.
They both say “hello” and he writes her name on a sticker that says “hello my name is.” When Renshi is finished writing the name on it he hands it to Erin.
Erin puts it on her shirt so the other students in the class know who she is.
After Erin has her name on her shirt, we started to line up for the class to begin, and Jen stood next to Erin in the back of the class.
All the students line up according to their rank, which is shown by the color belt they wear.
Jen was a brown belt and Erin had no belt at the moment, but will if she were to sign up for karate classes.
At the start of class all the students bow and say “Oni Gani Tanji Mas.” Once this is said class begins.
The whole class gets into a big circle and everyone picks an exercise for the class to do for 30 seconds.
When everyone is done picking an exercise, we line back up by rank, and we stretch our muscles.
After stretching, we break off into groups by the color belts everyone wears.
Erin went to a small area in the class with Jen.
Jen was Erin’s partner and teacher because she brought her to class to learn about karate.
She first went over the numbers in Japanese with her than Jen started teaching me kihon.
The numbers in Japanese are Ichi, Ni, San, Shi, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hachi, Ku, and Ju. Those numbers are 1 through 10.
Then we started going through kihon. Jen tells Erin, “kihon means the basics, which are the basic movements in karate.”
Jen states, “kihon is broken up into 3 parts: blocks, strikes, and kicks.”
“First we will go through the blocks, there are 5 different moves for blocks,” Jen states.
We go over the stances we have to be in when we are doing the blocks from kihon. The first stance is migi sanchindachi.
In this stance we do 3 blocks. They are Age Uke, Yoko Uke, and Joge Uke.
The second stance is migi shikodachi. In this stance we do 2 blocks. They are Gedan Barai and Haraitoshi Uke.
Jen tells Erin, “each block has there own name in Japanese, so lets try going over them and saying them.”
Erin repeats them after Jen, “Age Uke, Yoko Uke, Joge Uke, Gedan Barai, and Haraitoshi Uke.” “The last one is hard to pronounce” states Erin.
Next Jen starts to go over the strikes. There are 6 strikes in hidari sanchindachi, while there are 2 in hidari shikodachi.
Jen says “hidari sanchindachi kame.” Erin quickly moves into position.
Jen tells Erin the strikes are “seiken zuki, ichi, uraken, ni, urauchi, san, hara uchi, shi, furi uchi, go, shuto uchi, roku.” Erin says “those words are not too hard to learn they are easier then the blocks.”
Now that we have those strikes, Jen moves onto the next group of strikes. They are out of hidari shikodachi.
Jen says “hidari skidodachi kame.” Erin moves in horse stance and is ready for the new techniques.
“There are only 2 and they are uraken zuki and tate.”
Erin goes over the blocks and strikes by her self while Jen helps another student for a few minutes.
Jen then comes back to see how Erin is doing. She says “I am doing fine it is just trying to remember the names in Japanese.”
Jen states “yes, I know they are tricky.”
The last group is the kicks. There are 6 kicks and they are all in heidodachi stance.
They 6 kicks are kin geri, mae geri, kansetsu geri, mawashi geri, yoko geri, and ushiro geri.
Jen says “heidodachi kame.” Erin gets into the position and Jen does the different kicks at the same time Erin does hers. Erin tells Jen “I do not like the last kick, ushiro geri; I feel I am going to fall down.”
Jen says “you need to find your balance, then you will not fall down.”
Erin tries to do the kick again and the advice helped a lot. She was able to do the kick with out feeling like she was going to fall. Jen and Erin bow to each other and line back up like at the beginning of class.
The instructor calls “seretsu” and everyone quickly finds there spot to bow out of class.
At the end of class everyone says “Arigato Gazhiamas.”
On this night Erin has her mom sign her up for karate. Erin starts to learn more then kihon and starts learning katas and sparring. She tests for each rank every time there is a test.
Erin has made it to black belt and could not be any happier. She teaches the kids class that ranges from 3-6, 6-8, and 9-12 age groups for karate. Erin loves working with the 6 to 8 year olds the best.
Erin will continue to train and teach at karate.
