I figure on occasion, if a week is particularly good, I'll write about it. In this case, this week was pretty good for me, though there were some various downsides
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In a perfect world, class is an hour and a half, with ten minutes of warmups, then half an hour each on basics, kata and kumite, with the ten minutes being taken out from wherever the sensei wants. Normally, this doesn't ever work; each sensei just goes with what they have at the time. Generally with basics we go through all the strikes, blocks, stances and kicks in our lines. Kata training is just practising the kata we know and in some cases learning parts of kata we'll need for later, and kumite is just semi-controlled sparring with random people (given that I'm in a reasonably lax class). Generally most of the time is taken up by basics and kata, with kumite being left to the wayside by necessity of time.
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