About Senior Project

Erik L.-West

Topic: Karate Competitions/Tournaments

EQ: What is most important to competing as a top rated competitor in Martial Arts Tournaments?

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Senior Project Reflection

1. What I'm most proud of in my Senior Project is the completion of my 2 hour presentation because I got to share information I gained, get everyone to know how techniques are done, and talk about how I myself as a Martial Artist will try to improve/

2. a. I think I would give myself a P (maybe P-) for my 2 hour presentation.

b. Overall for my Senior project would be a P.

3. What worked for me in my Senior project were my presentations because I got the best grades on those so far.

4. What didn't work for me was only the science part of my Science fair because I wasn't very sure how to apply Karate into a chart, I wasn't sure if there was any other method beside Force of a kick calculations.

5. My Senior project was helpful because it actually got me to focus in my training more than I did before I started.  For example I enjoyed my first time sparring as a Black Belt in team sparring and now in future competitions I want to prepare more better and take the words I gained from my interviewees.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Service Learning

1. Literal: Here is the Service Learning log, my service learning contacts were Sensei Steve Wrey for Training and Shihan Mohammad for competition.

 Interpretive: The most important I gained from this experience was both my Black belt after a long time of training and a better perspective on what it takes to become a good competitor because I worked hard to come a long way but there is still more I need to know and I won't get there unless I continue working just as hard as I always did.

Applied: The experience was actually a good help to answer my EQ because it gave me many options on what to go in depth with to figure out which important techniques or tactics that need so much training time for an answer.

2. Karate Training: Sensei Steve Wrey

Compete competitions: Shihan Mohammad Jahan-Vash