Class with Ivan. We did 100 cuts to warm up a little, then I discussed some of what I had mentioned to my WCoS class the previous evening, talking about stance, hand position, and blade angles. We then went through Jo Kata a few times, discussing a few detail/rough points for Ivan.
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Class with Sal, Ferocitas, Elijah, Dalton and Ryan. Stretch, warm up, and requirements. I then reviewed a few key basics, talking about stance, movement, hand position, and blade angle when blocking and attacking. We then covered The Mantis (a new move for Dalton and Ryan). After a break, we did some advanced response training, refined strikes, and finished with several rounds of “Ninja”. This concludes classes for 2013, the dojo will re-open late January.
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Class with Ivan. Standing Iai 6 – 8 and some parry.
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Class with Sal, Elijah and Dalton. Stretch and requirements. After the break, I did armored parry with Dalton, then we all had one on one matches totaling 32.
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Class with Elijah and Dalton. Stretch, focus session on The Illusion, requirements. Break. Add-on, multi opponent machine gun, evasion, one attack parry.
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Class with Ivan. It has been a while, so we just reviewed standing iai 1 – 5 and the jo kata.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah and Dalton. Datlon finished up his first boken before class (he’s been coming early the past four classes or so to make his boken). Stretch and requirements initially, then I reviewed The Illusion (a new move for Elijah and Dalton). After the break, we had 27 one on one matches.
Conditions: Muddy with intermittent light rain.
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Class with Sal, Ryan and Dalton. Stretch and requirements, followed by covering The I Move, a new practiced move for Ryan and Dalton. After the break we started with refined strikes, then did 200 full circle cuts with steel, drilled on stance and movement, and finished with Ryan and Dalton doing head blocks with steel while Sal and I attacked.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah, and Dalton. Stretch and requirements. After the break, we had 27 one on ones.
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Class with Steven, Elijah, Dalton, and Renee. Stretch and requirements. After the break I did a focus drill on movement, focusing on weight transfer and having control of our motion at all times by engaging our quads, then did refined strikes, and finished with a rotation through two drill stations; the target gamut and cutting pattern 1 on the 8″ square cabers.
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Class with Steven, Elijah, Mary Ann, Dalton. Stretch and requirements. One on One sparring after the break totaling 30 matches.
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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.