A new HKC!

I've been delaying this post, because I wanted to do a full writeup of the HKC class that I attended recently. I'm not sure I'm going to get around to something that is as thorough as I'd like, so I'm just going to cover it briefly for now.

I arrived in Chicago on Friday afternoon and attended a two hour seminar with Dan John. It was a very interesting seminar, talking about many training and programming issues and including little mini-workouts as demonstrations throughout.

The next day was the HKC led by Master RKC Dan John. We started off with the "strength test", which is admittedly wimpy for the women. We only needed to do a 15 second flexed arm hang. The guys had to do 5 pull-ups/chin-ups. Then, we spent something like 2-3 hours on the swing, about an hour on the goblet squat, and maybe two hours on the Turkish Get-Up (TGU). All along, there were mini-workouts, where we would try out the prep work and correctives we were learning about and also showed examples of how to put together moves to form an effective workout. We paired up with different attendees each time, which ended up being great. There were several RKCs there to point out things and answer questions. The last couple hours were spent practicing teaching each other the moves and being tested for competence in the moves.

In the end, I passed. I was sore for three days afterward. None of the mini-workouts were that intense by themselves, but over the course of a full day, they added up.

All in all, the weekend was wonderful and I learned a ton! I enjoyed meeting Dan John and spending time with some friends!