25 minutes on the elliptical running a 5 hill (max 6 difficulty) program
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Class with Bryce. Stretch and then went through his requirements. Spent a little more time on Cutting Pattern 1. Did a few rounds of Refined Strikes, then 100 Full Circle Cuts (bokken). Finished with one attack parry followed by three attack parry.
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Class with Bryce. Stretch and then a couple excercises, first just leap frog, then a leap frog / pushup burpee, traveling down and back on our dojo space. Reviewed Bryce's requirements and added The Mantis to his set of moves. Finished with Refined Strikes.
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Class with Bryce. Stretch then went through his requirements with myself doing them, too. Spent some focus time on Cutting Pattern 1 and also on loosening and turning over the wrist to achieve a better full circle cut. Performed continuous full circle cuts with boken, 50 for Bryce and 100 for me. Finished with each of us doing Refined Strikes once.
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Walk/run warmup, 5 minutes
Three times through four exercises on a 30/30 sec exercise/break HiiT:
– Hungarian (one leg) Squats (20lbs carry)
– Horizontal pullup
– Pushup + lat extension plank
– Slider pikes | slider climbers | slider pike/crunch/lat-crunch
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Class with Bryce. Reviewed his requirements a couple times through, then went through requirements together, him repeating his as needed as I completed all of mine (except the cutting patterns he doesn't know).
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Class with Bryce at new location of Multnomah Community Arts Center. Stretch and review of his requirements. Added Thorn. Ended with a very brief bit of minor Balance 1.
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Class with Bryce. Stretch and review of everything he knows so far. Added thrust block, Cutting Pattern 1, and his first practiced move, Jumping Tiger 1.
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I journeyed to the Hayward Dojo and participated in the 2016 Best of the Best tournament. Top rankings went to Gad, Gemini and Vea, however I was awarded recognition for my exhibited skills and versatility.
In addition to the tournament steel matches, I did 20 or so boken matches with a few of the lower ranks, too. -
Class with Bryce. Stretch followed by a brief review of his basic cuts, then full circle cuts, 50 for him, 100 for me (boken). We then went back to reviewing what he knows so far, and then added decap block and leg block. We worked on flow a little and then I gave a sneak peek of Jumping Tiger 1 which we'll cover in full next week.
Conditions: Light rain, moderate temperature
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Class with Bryce. I provided him with a one handed boken in place of the two-hander I had him temporarily use last week. I spoke about the approach and reaons the WCoS has to training in all conditions, followed by a short stretch. We reviewed his basic cuts, working on some of the more subtle difference between two and one handed. Added thrust and the head and neck blocks.
Conditions: Intermitent light rain, cool
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First day of the new Portland Dojo, temporarily to be held at Commonwealth Lake Park. Bryce met me and we went over the format of the class, the desired commitment I'm looking for, one solid color for uniform, the three rules of swordsmanship, the six traditions, the defensive stance, and the six full circle cuts. I lent him a bastard sword boken for this week, but I will try to get him a one hander come next week and will join him in that style.
Conditions: Perfect, roughly 70 degrees or a little under, dry for the present.
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Class led by Blaine. Stretch, then kihon kicks: yokogeri kiagi, yokogeri kokome, and mwashigeri. For each one, after the basic, we mixed in some combinations: yokogeri kiagi / mai te, yokogeri kiagi / mai te / gyakuzuki, mwashigeri / yokogeri kokome, mwashigeri / mai te / yokogeri kokome, front leg mwashigeri / backleg mwashigeri. We then did some 50% speed kumite with several partners, and finished with 5 Heian Shodan and 5 Heian Nidan.
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Class led by Merv. Stretch, then a focus on kihone kicks (mwashigerri off the front leg, yokogerri kiagi, yokogerri kokome). We then had several partners for general jiyu kumite at roughly half speed. Finished with 10 Basai.
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Class led by Blaine. Warm up and stretch. 15 Heian Shodan, 15 Heian Nidan. Worked on mwashigeri (back and front leg), yokogeri kiagi and kokome. Finished with a couple bouts of light jiyu kumite with kicks only.
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Solo practice, went through all of my Silver Chain requirements (using steel). Included Kodiak and Dragons Bite, and started experimenting with a move tentatively named Vampire (right shuffle in right neck cut feignt spun into left back edge neck cut ("scorpian") with lateral shift to left stance).
I am training in the park, and a guy (Daniel, I think) happened by and gave me a katana that has been sitting in his closet for a couple years ever since his friend gave it to him. I offered to teach him to use it, but he said he wasn't very interested and probably too busy. I provided him a contact method if he changes his mind.
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Very brief stretch and a 5 minute walking warmup
Three times through (slashes delimit differences between rounds) 30/30 HiiT set:
– Forward lunge / Lateral lunge / Reverse lunge
– Lat pull-down (30lb) / Lat pull-down (60lb) / Chest Press (80lb)
– High knees in-place rapid jog
– Ab rollerCool down with 5 minute walk
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I journeyed down to the Hayward Dojo for a Day of Combat and to support Sal's 30 minute non-stop battle and Crimson Chain test, and I also was a part of Steel Wind's steel Red Rope test.
We had a good number of fighters present, six in steel and several more in wood. It started with Sal's non-stop, then the main combat event was 5 wood matches, 5 steel matches, 5 wood matches, 5 steel matches, and 5(?) scenario wood matches. -
Class led by Brent. Jog/etc warm up, agility ladder, ear game, distance game, and binding game. We then a "Playbook" drill, where with a partner you build a series of attacks and counters (i.e. I make the same unopposed attack three times in a row, then I repeat three again with my partner making the same counter, then three times again with me countering the counter, etc). We started at just attack and counter and worked our way up to four techniques total. Finished with some slow-motion sparring. Steel feder for all except distance game.
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Class led by Merv. Stretch, then we started some in-depth work on oitsuki, gedan barai, and age uke, with a particular focus on shoulder connection, pullback connection, and torso position/rotation (which was remeniscient of a lot of what Oshima Sensei talked about when I was at a special workout at the Oshima Dojo several years ago). We then went through Heian Shodan 10+ times to work further on these aspects. The class was then split into upper and lower divisions and the uppers worked on Kanku, going first through slowly to examine specifics of each technique, then through another 6+ times regular, and then through Basai 3 times, and finally favorite kata (Heian Godan for me) a couple times.