Work out with Sal.
4 cycles;
– Pullups (10/10/8/8)
– Unstable decline pushups (15)
– Divider hops (30sec)
– Roller crunches (30sec)
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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).
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Class with Ivan and Josh. Instructed Josh on kendo stance, head and temple strikes and blocks. Ivan and I went through Cutting Pattern 1 and 2 after Josh left.
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Class with Ivan. 100 cuts, focus session on standing iai 1 – 5.
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Workout with Sal.
4 cycles, 30 sec per station, switching off:
– hip pop squats (25lbs)
– burpee (two pushups, four punches, two kicks off same leg (alternating leg each repeat))
– divider hop
– reverse crunch (hands on sliders) -
Workout with Sal.
4 cycles:
– unstable squats with medicine ball (~9 each side, varied each cycle)
– unstable decline pushups (10)
– jump rope (30 sec)
– plank sliders (30 sec) -
Class with Sal, Chris and Charlie. Requirements twice through (I worked with Chris, then Charlie). During the break, I set up balance 1 and 2, which we went through for a while, then rotated partners for Refined Strikes and finished with my new variable partner Parry drill.
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Workout with Sal:
Cycle 4X:
Unstable decline pushup
Pullups
Unstable dips
Seal walk