Class led by Merv. Stretch including some suppprted slow mwashageri and yokogeri kokome. Kihon punches and kicks. Half speed jiyu kumite. Finished with a few basai.
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Class led by Carolyn. She started with an extended yoga-informed warm up stretch, then we did some kihon work on maigerri and mawashigerri combos including both solo and partner drills. I then lead a couple students on Heian Godan and we finished with a little bit of sanbon kumite.
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Class led by Stewart. Stretch, then we moved directly into Kanku. We then paired for ippon kumite for a bit and finished with light mock jiyu kumite with a designated attacker and defender/counter.
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Class led by Mirv. I led stretch and then we moved into some kihon. Oizuki, gyakuzuki, maigeri kiagi, mwashageri. We then did some combinations: maite/gyakuzuki/maigeri, and maite/gyakuzuki/mwashageri.
Next the class split and the upper ranks worked on kanku.
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Started a new tues/thurs lunch workout schedule.
Today to start things off, did a five minute walking warmup, then moved into three repeats of 30/30 sec stations:
– Pop Squats with 20lbs
– Unstable one-arm bench press with 20lbs
– Pull-ups
– Mountain climbers
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Class led by (mirv?). Stretch and then nidan kihon, practicing multi-technique combos: maigerri/mwashagerri, maigerri/yokogerrikokime, maigerri/mai-te, gedanbarai/gyakuzuki, shutouke/niponuchi/nukite, and maigerri/fumikomi/mwashigerri. Finished up with a brief review of Kanku.
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Class led by Haycraft sensei. Stretch followed by some drills going from mai-te to mai-te/gyakuzuki and then defending and responding to that pattern. The later portion I was assigned to work with a couple lower belts on Heian Godan.
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Class led by ?. Stretch followed by extensive repetition of uke/gyakuzuki basics, both moving forward and back. We moved into chudan sanbon kumite for a bit and then jodan ippon kumite, and we finished with Basai ten to fifteen times through.
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Class led by Blain. Warm up run and stretch. With the up coming kyu test, we then focused on kihone, going thoroughly through all of the basics. We finished with solo performances of our favorite kata.
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Second day of the Ravenswood event. For the morning session we started with 15 steel melees and then held 10 bokken melees. For the afternoon, we were down some steel fighters so we began with round-robinned best-of-three steel duals and then held a number of bokken melees, most of them being team scenarios.
Afterward we packed everything back up, including Steven, Elijah and John (from Nevada dojo) helping to load and return the straw bales. -
First day of my Ravenswood Coliseum event. Yesterday Elijah and Michael helped me pick up straw bales from a local rancher and setup our arena, and Sal brought his new structure for our enclosure. We didn’t have enough steel fighters for melees in the morning, so Kaiden David, Ryan E.B. and I round-robinned some steel best-of-three duals and then we moved to bokken melees to include the rest of the present fighters. The afternoon melees included the additional fighters from the bay area, so we started with 10 steel melees, then followed with 10 bokken melees. In the evening, I hosted a feast at my mother’s house.
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Class led by Merv. Stretch and then kihon, performing each technique on average 80 times (one or two 60, a few more more 100). Finished with some partner practice using them as a target to practice faster punches, getting in sooner.
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Class led by Haycraft Sensei. Jog and stretch, then a focus on gedan barai and oizuki, getting the first half of the motion to happen faster and put the hips into it sooner to effectively defend/evade the incoming attack (gedan barai) or initiate the attack faster (oizuki). We then followed up trying to apply the same to age uke with a partner making jodan attacks, first oizuki then gyaku zuki, and after that we stood against a wall defending against jodan attacks (including countering in the later portion). We finished with kata, the upper ranks going through Basai some 10+ times.
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Class led by Stewart (Iwasaki Sensei?). Stretch and then right into the Heian series, Tekki Shodan, and Basai, several times (minimum of 10) on each. Followed with partner kicking drill, kicking off front leg, then back leg, after which partner returns with same, back and forth: Mae gerri, mwashigerri, and yoko gerri. Finished with several partners of ippon kumite.
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Class led by Merv. Stretch and two dojo lengths for each kihon. Partner ipon kumite drills on various gedan barai / gyaku gedan barai variations, working up to kiba oitsuki and related techniques. Finished with katas, full heian series plus teki shodan.
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I attended SKA class tonight led by Blaine. There is a kyu test soon, so the focus was on basics/kihon. After the stretch, we spent the entire rest of the time doing over 100 reps of each basic (oizuki, gyaku zuki, gedan barai, age uke, ude uke, tetsui uke, shuto uke, mai geri, yoko geri, yoko geri kokome) and, because we were running out of class time, 40 of mwashi geri and mikazuki geri, and finished with 10 fumikomi.
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I attended the Portland SKA dojo tonight with practice led by Haycraft Sensei. Stretch warm up followed by some kumite oriented drills, working up from shuffle forward, shuffle in mai te, shuffle in mai te gyaku zuki, shuffle in mai te gyaku zuki switch stance, slip inside of an oi zuki switch stance mai te gyaku zuki. All of this was first solo up and back, then partnered to provide a target. Upper ranks also worked on proper control/distance of the mai te.
We then moved into kata, performing both Haian Sandon and Basai approx 10 or so times each.