My Strengths and Weaknesses
My strengths and weaknesses are as follows:
- Cardiovascular – My score for the bleep test wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be. I got to level 9.0 before I stopped. However, in karate Cardiovascular fitness isn’t very important. This is contradicting what I said in section B but I, personally, concentrate more on the Kumite (fighting) aspect of competition as opposed to the kata (forms), which does require quite good cardiovascular fitness. So with this said I am not that concerned with my score for this.
I didn’t get a score for the 12min Cooper run. About 4 mins into the test I slipped on a cone and hurt my foot so I was un-able to continue with the test
- Reaction Time - I scored 4.4 in the reaction-time stick test, which was a good score. In comparison to the other people in the PE group I scored the second highest for this test. This is because of the amount of fighting training and competition I do. When fighting, whether it be training, sparring or in competition having good reaction time is very helpful when it comes to seeing openings for points and being able to see attacks coming and be able to defend them.