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By Jim Riddell, Rookie of the Month

Seaway Karate Club
Briseis Cox

Age: 4

KARATE KOMMENTS Grade: Pre-kindergarten in September
School: Bishop Macdonell
Home Town: Cornwall
Summer Drills - Part 2 August’s Rookie is fledgling T-ball

enthusiast. Briseis is finishing her first

The sporting world has been a busy place in the past month or season of her favourite sport with the
so. Jack Hughes was selected 1st overall by the New Jersey Devil Cornwall Minor Baseball League. While
in the NHL draft, trades, and free agency have dozens of NHL the thing she likes the most about T-ball
players and their families searching for homes in their new cities
and the USA ladies’ team defeated the Netherlands in the finals to is hitting the ball off of the tee, Briseis’s favourite position to play
win the FIFA World Cup. on the diamond is first base.

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In the previous issue of Sports Energy, I shared a few drills using This young lady’s hobbies include playing in the pool, jumping on
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a tennis ball that we had sent home with our Seaway Karate Club the trampoline, and watching television.
members to practise over the summer. These drills only take a Sports Energy
minute or to each and are designed to enhance karate training. Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaper
Here are a few more variations that can be practised using a tennis
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1) Jab catch - Standing on a hard surface, take a fighting stance ALL NEW HOCKEY GEAR NOW IN STOCK
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with your left hand up, protecting your chin. Holding the tennis
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level with a left jab. Repeat for a total of twenty-five jabs. 400 Second St. W. Cornwall
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with your right hand up and protecting your chin. Bounce the ball
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off the surface catching it at face level with a properly executed
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right cross. Repeat for a total of twenty-five crosses.
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using your right hand, toss the ball at head height on your right Is a Publication of:
side then catching the ball with the right hand, then tossing it just
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4) Partner drill – Jab, With a partner, both of you standing in a Graphic Design: Lynn Dillabough,
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5) Cross catch – similar drill, only this time both partners are 613-362-8004 gordshaver@hotmail.com
catching the ball at face level with a properly executed right cross; Sales: Guy Lalonde
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6) Defensive drill – one partner stands in a fighting stance against Sports Energy is a monthly publication covering the Greater Cornwall
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