Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah, Dalton, Renee. Stretch, kneeling walk, and burpees to warmup. Requirements, a break, and then dodging 1, finishing with balance 1 & 2 (students challenge).
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Class with Ivan. We worked outside on the jo kata.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah, Dalton, Renee. Stretch and requirements, a break, and sparring.
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Class with Ivan. We just worked on combos.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Ryan, Dalton, Renee. Stretch, requirements, break, combo/pattern practice, machinegun drill (head only).
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Class with Ivan. Warmed up with 100 cuts, then reviewed basic blocks.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Mary Ann, Ryan, Dalton, Renee. Stretch, requirements, advanced response training, balance 1 & 2.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Elijah, Mary Ann, Dalton and Renee. Stretch and requirements. I reviewed the basic cuts for Dalton and Renee and added thrust, and instructed Elijah on advanced thrust block and Cutting Pattern 2. After the break, I did armored parry with Mary Ann, and then there were 31 one on one matches and three melees.
Conditions: hot (90+ degrees), dusty
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Class with Joshua, Elijah, Mary Ann, Ryan, Dalton and Renee. Stretch and requirements. I covered decap and leg cuts for Dalton and Renee, basic strikes for Elijah, and Jumping Tiger 2 for Mary Ann and Ryan, as well as reviewed Cutting Pattern 1 with Ryan.
After the break, we rotated through cutting gamut, altered terrain movement, and balance 1 drill stations, then did 200 full circle cuts (100 x 2). -
Class with Ivan. Standing Iai 1 – 6, One Step Techniques 5 – 8.
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Class with Elijah, Mary Ann, Dalton, and Renee. Stretch and requirements. With Dalton and Renee, I covered resting and defensive stance, and then head and neck cuts. After the break, I did basic dagger training, including refined strikes with daggers, and finished with Balance 1.
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Class with Ivan. Warmed up with a few gym lengths of cuts and blocks. Standing Iai 1 – 6, One Step Techniques 1 – 4.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Chris, Elijah, and Jesse B. Dalton was present as an observer. Stretch and requirements, I worked with Chris. After the break, we did Refined Strikes and then Blind Gamut (partners take turns guiding each other through altered terrain by voice with the guided one blindfolded). The second time through everyone, we switched partners and I added a random slow boffer attack they had to defend against.
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Class with Ivan. We reviewed basic cuts, basic blocks, standing iai 1 – 6, and one step techniques 1 – 4.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Ferocitas, Chris, Elijah, Jesse, Mary Ann and Ryan. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Ryan, reviewing his cuts and blocks and then adding Cutting Pattern 1. I worked with Mary Ann reviewing her three practiced moves. After calling the class back together, I we reviewed Thorn (including instructing Ryan on it).
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah, Jesse, and Mary Ann. Stretch and requirements the first half. I worked with Mary Ann, reviewing her progress and instructing her on Thorn. The second half we did unarmored parry. I had Sal doing the one-attack variation in his circle and I started with one-attack, then moved up to three attack in my circle, plus I did regular unarmored parry with Mary Ann. We finished with balance 1 and 2.
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Special non-weapons training for Jesse B. and Ryan. Provided them an introduction to Shotokan Karate with an emphasis on how it may be applied in a sword fighting centric scenario. Covered front stance, lunge punch, front snap and thrust kick, side thrust kick, outside/hammerfist block and rising block. Also reviewed the sword disarming technique and my move Kodiak (not for their official list of moves, though).
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah, Jesse and Mary Ann. Dalton and Renee watched their second class and said they’ll be back (though they will miss next week due to being out of town). Stretch and requirements. I instructed Steven on Kata Ni, reviewed Mary Ann’s practiced moves, and finished with reviewing Jesse’s cuts and blocks. After the break, we had 36 one on one matches.
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Class with Sal, Ferocitas, Elijah, Jesse, Mary Ann, and Ryan. Renee and Dalton observed their first class. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Ryan, reviewing and then adding leg and thrust block, then worked with Mary Ann reviewing her cuts and blocks and cutting pattern 1.
After the break, we did evasion training, then I instructed on Gad’s sword disarming technique, and we finished with 100 full circle cuts (myself and Sal with iron sword). -
35 minutes on the elliptical (including 5 min cooldown)
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Class with Steven, Ferocitas, Elijah, Jesse and Ryan. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Ryan, going over what he knows so far and then working through thrust, and blocks for head, neck and decap. After the break, we had 45 one on one matches, with a focus on getting Jesse his matches for his green braid eval.
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30/30 cycle, alternating between a 2-pushup/10-mountain-runner/2-pullup burpee and various lunges incorporating arm exercises.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Ferocitas, Jesse B, Antonio, and Ryan. Stretch and then a focus session on stance and movement, then paired off for requirements. I instructed Ryan on decap and leg cuts after reviewing his defensive stance and head and neck cuts. I then worked with Steven and Joshua, instructing them on The Drop. After the break, we did a couple rounds of Refined Strikes, then did a gauntlet, with the runner using boffer and everyone else wielding bokken. Started with static opponents and then added up to moderate movement. Also change between only defending and evading to actively seeking a killing attack.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Ferocitas, Chris, Elijah, Jesse, Mary Ann and Ryan. Stretch and then I worked with Ryan on his stance and basic head and neck cuts, while Sal took Mary Ann and I paired the others off together. After the break, we had 60 one on one matches.
Conditions were very hot, roughly 105 degrees when class started (high of 116 earlier in the day).
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Special class held by Head Kaiden Gad at the new Hayward Dojo after the first day of the dojo build. I was paired with Kaiden Bone Finder for requirements, during which Gad made a few notes to me to bring back to my class.The leg target has moved back to the knee, rather than mid-thigh, as it is the optimal target to train to hit automatically. Dragons Tail should be practiced as a Straight Office move with the uke/partner making no movement at all. He also said I should make certain my students let me know when they complete their requirements so I may explicitly assign their next training task.
After the break, we worked on evasion. Gad, Bone Finder and I were assigned sections of the dojo and had the other students come in one at a time to face us as we made a series of cuts, with them evading to the best of the ability and only blocking if absolutely necessary.