The Product

Q. What is your product and why?

A. An idea I think my product is being more focused in competing more than before.  In my service learning part of the senior project, I have been working hard in class and I competed about two weeks ago in my first Team Black Belt tournament; my team mates and I may have placed second but we put our best efforts and made our instructors proud. Here's a link to my fight in the tournament click here

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. What I plan to do for my Independent study component is my Karate training on Wednesdays and Thursday evenings to prepare for an upcoming tournament.

2. This plan will meet my 30 hours because I train every week, each class I train in is worth an hour and it helps me stay prepared for my other half of the plan which is competition.  As for competition it may not come very often but I will go for every chance I get.

3. This independent study relates to my Essential Question because as I said before, training helps me prepare for any competition I go to and the competition gives me the feel of being a real competitor.

Independent Component 1

1. Here is a Google Docs link to my hours log link

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3. Literal: a. I, Erik Leon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b. What I did to complete these 30 hours was my training and teaching youth students at the American Warrior Karate school on Wednesdays for 1 hour from 7:30 to 8:30 PM and Thursdays for 3 hours from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.

Interpretive: The most significant part of my independent component was achieving my Black Belt because it demonstrates that my training was worth the hard work, although the training doesn’t stop there.

Applied: It helps answer my EQ because my training part helped me understand what it takes to be a good competitor in my point of view while training; I also help the youth students prepare for any upcoming tournament.

Blog 14: 20 minute rough draft

Click the link for the Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EcghYNWA1RGJ6ZtdtTUUD3fAepHxaKSoiv93FgrNtfg/edit

Answer 1

1. Q. What is answer 1 to your EQ?

A. To compete, one should be able to effectively implement the slide up Double Side kick.

2. Q. What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?

A. -The slide up Double Side kick is effective for maybe scoring on your opponent and to cover distance.

-Bill “Superfoot” Wallace was the first to implement a Double kick, which was a Roundhouse Hook kick, and proved to be more successful for his fighting skill.

-Many styles have adapted to the first Double kick and made different combinations of two different kicks such as Double Roundhouse, Side kick Roundhouse, Hook kick Roundhouse, and Double Side kick.

3. Q. What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?

A. My one source for this evidence that helps prove this answer was my “The Ultimate kick: The Wallace Method to Winning Karate” book by Bill “Superfoot” Wallace. 

 
 

Service Learning

• My service learning place is the American Warrior Karate dojo, and the competitions I participate in.
• My contacts are Sensei Steve Wray for the dojo and for competitions is Shihan Mohammad.
• The work I currently do for service learning is train and teach  youth students at the dojo.  For competitions it's basically compete in them and study other fighters as well.
• I can say I have more than 10 hours of service learning completed so far.

Training

 Training my best for the team fighting competition.