In France it's "la rentrée" where the children go back to school and sporting clubs resume normal activity. Although we had a few classes over the summer that were really aimed at 2nd and 3rd Dan Kata, I was looking forward to normal classes twice a week with a view to making good progress towards my blue belt.
Unfortunately I hurt my back at work lifting a generator into the back of the van and the disks pressing on my sciatic nerve caused a lot of pain and discomfort meaning I missed the first two weeks back.
Having gone back to karate this week, I found that although it was hard work and tiring due to my absence, the training is helping a lot with my back pain and is helping to loosen up the stiff muscles in my lumbar region.

Good news, I successfully obtained my green belt.
We went throught the black belt grading for the Midi-Pyrenees in the South of France.
It was hard work but good fun and well worth it!!

Got my grading coming up next week so desparately trying to improve my katas!
Your videos are really useful for me so thanks very much!!

I am now trying to get to grips with Heian kata as opposed to the Pinan kata I studied ten years ago with the Shukokai karate association.

It's slowly coming back to me with the great help of your videos!