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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Tag Archives: karate
Back to My Karate
Last Wednesday saw me make my return to Funakoshi karate, for my first training session of 2012, after having enjoyed a nice month and bit holiday break from all the punching, kicking and shifting around. The break had been good, … Continue reading
Posted in My Life
Tagged dogi, exercise, funakoshi, karate, morning walk, sweating, training
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Kyu 2 Brown Belt Achieved!
Pleasingly, despite my reduced commitment to my Karate training regime, I was allowed to grade the Saturday before last, grading for Brown Kyu 2, in other words Brown two stripes (where I was currently Brown three stripes). The grading took … Continue reading
Posted in Martial Arts, My Life
Tagged belt, birgitt smit, brown belt, eco-school, fkisa, funakoshi, funakoshi karate international, grading, karate, kyu, modeor, sensei
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My Karate Training Dilemma
I sit with a bit of a dilemma on my hands with regards to my karate training, and the decision is a big one – should I continue or should I stop? It’s important to understand why this dilemma has … Continue reading
Posted in Martial Arts, My Life
Tagged birgitt smit, brown belt, funakoshi, funakoshi karate international, grading, karate, kyu, Martial Arts, syllabus
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Funakoshi Karate International Syllabus: Brown Belt 3rd Kyu to Brown Belt 2nd Kyu
The following items make up the required syllabus in order to grade up from a brown belt 3rd kyu to a brown belt 2nd kyu level. The items are divided up into Saiten Kentai Waza (Grading Forms), Katas, Basic Kihon … Continue reading
Posted in Martial Arts
Tagged brown belt, funakoshi, funakoshi karate international, grading, karate, kyu, Martial Arts, syllabus, techniques
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Training Regime Restart
Right, time to get back into the faithful old training regime, now that Spring seems to be finally creeping up on us, and all the Winter chest pains, bugs and coughs appear to have finally deserted me. The karateka have … Continue reading
Posted in My Life
Tagged diet, eating plan, exercise, jog, karate, training, walk, weights
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Let’s Resume then Shall We?
Okay, I guess it is time that I resume with some live life blogging again (thank you my carefully crafted blog buffer – an intricate process I might add, filled with pen marks and printed out calendar pages if you … Continue reading
Joke Factory: Karate Tournament Referees
A grandmother was tasked with taking her eager young grandson to partake in his first ever karate tournament. On arriving, the granny noted that the tournament organiser appeared rather understaffed, and so approached the main officials’ table. Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged bad referee, grandmother, granny, humour, joke, karate, referee
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Martial Arts in Action: Delivering an Axe Kick
Axe kicks are a little debatable as to whether or not they are actually effective as an offense, and you often only really find them coming out towards the end of bouts as the combatants tire and their opponent’s defence lowers a little. Continue reading
