Today I trained one on one with Gad. He reviewed my Red Rope requirements with me. I need to work a lot on my Refined Strikes and Centered Cuts. We then armored up and fought a number of rounds of single combat. A significant reason for this was to attempt to use my new 13th move, “Splinter”. Unfortunately, it is designed specifically against Defensive Stance, which is not his favored stance, and though he most tried to use that stance, I still found it difficult to work in my move, which has a distinctive begining, in such a way that it would not be anticipated (as much). Despite this, of the three or so moves I have created, it is still probably the best and I will continue to work on it. A critical component to increasing its success will be making it into one motion instead of two.

(battle log to be added)