Workout with Sal.
4 cycles;
– Bulgarian squat (25lbs – 10/leg)
– Pushup/pullup burpee (30 sec)
– Unstable Dips (15)
– Roller crunch (30 sec)
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Special training event with Godan Sensei Ken Osborne. Focus on assessing your opponent, keeping technique simple, using weight shift and balance (and lack there of in opponent).
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Class with Sal, Chris, and Charlie. Steven observed a second time. I spoke with him at the end and he stated his intention to begin class next week. We had a brief stretch and then went through requirements once (I reviewed Sal), then switched and I review Charlie with the other two did their practiced moves. After a break, we had one on one matches using a best-of-five approach.
The weather was intermittent heavy rain with some hail at one point, and the dojo was fairly muddy despite the straw hay layer.
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Special session with Jeremiah Sensei, who was on travel in California and came to visit us. Hiroko, Ivan and myself were in attendance. Some others were invited, but none made it. We reviewed Standing Iai 1 – 8, One Steps 1 – 10, Free Fighting 1 – 2, and he instructed on Free Fighting 3 – 5 and the Jo Staff Kata, as well as the partner drills. At the end of the session, he granted Ivan his Green Belt rank, and surprised Hiroko and I with a rank of Brown Belt.
Partner Drills are a scenario based set of progressional attacks and counters. First the two partners determine the setting (against a wall or cliff, low ceilings, beach, etc), then they start with (step 1) a single (unblocked) technique, (step 2) an attack with evasion, (step 3) and attack with evasion and second attack, (step 4) an attack with evasion, and a second attack with a preemptive counter, and (step 5) an attack with evasion, followed by the start of a second attack with an attempt at preemptive counter that is its self blocked or preempted and a successful attack completed.
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Class with Sal, Chris and Charlie. Joe called out, Steven observed. Stretch and requirements twice through. After the break, both to provide a extra breadth in experience, and to prep for the upcoming special session on Monday, I gave an introduction to the basic cuts and blocks in Myo Sim Kendo, and instructed on Kneeling Iai 1 and Standing Iai 1.
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Workout with Sal;
3 cycles;
– 15 sec bulgarian squats (25lbs)
– 15 sec unstable decline pushups
– 15 sec bulgarian squats (25lbs)
– 15 sec unstable decline pushups
– 30 sec rest
– 30 sec plank slider or roller crunches (alternating)
– 30 sec restAddtl 30 sec rest and final plank or roller crunch for balance
2 cycles;
– 15 sec alt. front punch
– 15 sec alt. round kick
– 15 sec alt. front punch
– 15 sec alt. round kick -
Work out with Sal.
4 cycles;
– Pullups (10/10/8/8)
– Unstable decline pushups (15)
– Divider hops (30sec)
– Roller crunches (30sec) -
Class with Ivan. Discussed Kneeing Iai 1 – 5, reviewed Standing Iai 1 – 5 and One Step Techniques 1 – 4.
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Workout with Sal.
4 cycles;
– MB lunge and twist (12 each leg)
– Bi-level pushups (min 10, I did between 12 and 18)
– Divider hops (30 sec)
– Rocking plank (30 sec) -
Class with Sal, Chris and Charlie, Joe called out. Stretch and requirements once through, plus a focus session on movement. After the break, we had one on one matches totaling 38 matches.
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Class with Hiroko. I took this class to go over the Western Circle of Swordfighter’s basic cuts and blocks in order to contrast them with the Myo Sim Kendo cuts and blocks. I covered all basic full circle cuts (head, neck, decap, leg), basic thrust, and the corresponding blocks.
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Workout with Sal.
4 cycles:
– Bulgarian squats (25 lbs)
– Floor runner (30 sec)
– Horizontal pullups (min 10)
– Seal walk (20 lbs) -
Special session at the Redding Dojo so that Head Kaiden Gad may observe the dojo. Class with Gad, Sal, Chris, Nate, Joe and Charlie. Stretch and requirements, followed by a focus session on Thorn, with particular attention to good clean movement and full pull-back and thrust. After a break, we rotated through several partners for Refined Strikes, then did Evasion, and finished with several rounds of the parry variation with attacker/defender/watcher.
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Workout with Sal.
4 cycles;
– burpee/ lateral medicine ball squat (30 sec)
– horizontal under arm pull ups (thresh. 10)
– unstable tricep dips (thresh. 10)
– slider crunch/lats/pike (30 sec) -
Class with Sal, Chris, Nate, and Charlie. Stretch and requirements once through, then a focus session on The Mantis, discussing the finer points of distance, timing, cut control, and movement. After a break, during which Sal and I both tested our new steel with cutting pattern 1, we rotated through four partners for refined strikes (plus watched one round), then against rotated through three rounds of light closed parry (i.e. attacker calling “switch”). We finished with a round robin of machinegun drill with head or neck target.
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Class with Hiroko. 50 cuts to warm up, then standing iai 5 – 8. Switched to shinai and went through one step techniques 1 – 10.
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Workout with sal.
4 cycles;
– Unstable squat with lateral medicine ball twist (20, alternating sides)
– Horizontal pullups (20)
– Unstable pushups (15)
– Roller crunches (30 sec) -
Workout on my own.
4 cycles:
– Hip pop squats (30 sec)
– Unstable one arm press (25lbs, 10 each arm)
– Horizontal pullup (14)
– Slider crunch/oblique/pike (30sec) -
Class with Sal, Chris and Charlie. Joe called out. Stretch and 100 cuts (with steel), then requirements twice through ( I reviewed Sal and Chris). After a break, we had 24 one-on-ones, 5 multi-opponent matches for Sal, and 3 mini-melees (last man standing).
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Class with Ivan and Josh. Reviewed head and temple cuts and blocks, then instructed Josh on wrist and torso cuts and blocks, then covered Standing Iai 1.
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Workout with Sal.
Four cycles;
– Lunge with medicine ball lateral twist (10 each leg)
– Unstable decline pushups (10+)
– Divider hop (30sec)
– Gecko crawl (10lbs weights, 10+ ft forward, then backward) -
Workout with Sal.
Four cycles through:
– Bulgarian squat (25lbs)
– Pullups (10/8/8/8)
– Line-crossing punches (shifting between right and left stance while punching – 30 sec)
– Rollercrunchs (30 sec) -
Class with Sal, Chris and Charlie. Joe called out ill. Stretch, followed by a focus session on Jumping Tiger 1, including a discussion on the advanced wrapping technique and its benefits and pitfalls. Requirements once through (myself with Charlie), then a change of partners and repeat of 10 practiced moves (myself with Chris). After a break, we rotated through each partner for Refined Strikes, then did sanbon (three-attack parry with counter) with the attacker making any high attack, and finished with some specific attack patterns that the defender had to work with and find an appropriate response to (Mantis, Illusion/Double-Chop, and leg/leg/head/decap).
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Class with Hiroko. 50 cuts to warm up, then kneeling iai 5 and 8, followed by standing iai 5 and 6. We finished with some fast response drills, starting with going over the WCoS offensive-defense practiced moves Defense Cut and Tradition, then doing the equivalent of the Shotokan sanbon kumite where an attacker makes three attacks (we kept it to head or either temple), and the defender counter attacks on or after the third attack, the point being to work on our timing and experimenting with offensive-defense technique as well as timed straight offense combined with evasion.
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Class with Sal and Chris. I reviewed their requirements with each of them individually, then after a break they had 25 matches between the two of them (I only marshaled due to a healing injury).