I visited with Sal today and he gave me a tour of his dojo space, then we worked through our full requirements. Unfortunately, I forgot my steel, so I had to borrow a boken. During our session, he made note of a few upates that have come up in his working with Head Kaiden Gad.

 * The I Move – the technique is explicitly a full chop now in order to be applied against any target (I pointed out that it is still important to tip the blade first during the pull back to make it faster).
 * Kata Ich – the forward moving blocks are right neck, left neck, right leg (made simply sweeping down from the left neck block).
 * Kata Ni – the final techniques are dragons tail followed by the illusion, where the illusion's head feignt is made as we turn the 180 about face.

Additional notes:

 * Tradition – he noted that the (relatively) new clearing technique at the end is as we create distance and should not actually target the uke where they stand.
  * I would like to discuss the vertical draw cut with the head kaiden further.

It was a good session, and good to see his training space for the Redding dojo.