Special session of one on one sparring at Sal’s house in order to get Joshua and Jesse A more battles.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Chris, Sabrina, Elijah, Jesse B, Mary Ann and Antonio. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Mary Ann and Antonio, going through the six traditions, the three rules of swordsmanship, and all basic full circle cuts. After the break, we worked on stance and battle movement, finishing with an uncounted number of full circle cuts, then had balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Hiroko. We went through the Jo Kata a few times, then spent the rest of our time on light unarmored sparring at approximately half speed.
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Class with Sal, Jesse A, Elijah, Jesse B, and Mary Ann. Antonio observed his second class. Stretch and then I worked with Mary Ann on stance and head, neck and decap cuts while the others went through their requirements. After the break, we armored up and had one on one sparring.
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Workout with Jesse B (Sal standing in as coach only due to injury).
I did three 30/30 rounds of:
– squat-pop with 25lbs
– tricep dips
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Class with Sal, Steven, Chris, and Jesse B. Elijah was ill and observed, Mary Ann observed her second class, and Anthony observed his first class. Requirements once through and a break. After the break, we did five rounds of refined strikes, then advanced response training, and finished with Balance 1 and 2.
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Hiroko and I performed a kendo demonstration for the cultural awareness day at the local mall.
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Class with Hiroko. We reviewed our demo for Saturday twice, then worked a little longer on parry.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jessa A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Mary Ann observed her first class tonight, and Sabrina observed as well. Stretch and requirements, then a break. After the break, we had 61 one on one matches.
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I traveled to the Northern Reaches dojo in Gardnerville with four of my students for the 2013 Snow Event. There were 9 regular melees and 3 scenario melees, totaling 18 matches for myself with 4 melee wins. This was followed by additional 1 on 1 matches in the snow, of which I had 15. Back at the dojo that evening, a few had 18 more one on ones which I marshaled.
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Class with Hiroko. We worked out/through our demonstration plan for the upcoming cultural demo. Kneeling Iai 5, Kneeling Iai 8, Standing Iai 2, Standing Iai 4b, Standing Iai 6, Jo Kata, Parry (One Attack), Parry (Switch).
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, Jesse B, Elijah (and Sal observed due to injury). Requirements in the first half, and I instructed Jesse B on Mantis. In the second half, we started with a few rotations of Refined Strikes, and then moved to a combination of machinegun drill (head/neck/decap) and gamut. The attackers rotated through attacking the defender and then three attacks on the gamut, and additionally the defender wore weights on their ankles to hinder movement, the focus being on defense without evasion (a la sandy or snowy terrain).
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Class with Hiroko. Jo kata, parry, and light unarmored sparring.
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, and Elijah. Requirements during the first half (I worked with Chris), and then we had 43 one-on-one matches and 1 melee.
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Class with Hiroko. Jo kata and free fighting techniques 1 and 2.
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Hiroko couldn’t make it, so I trained on my own, working on the Jo kata and some basic cutting.
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I got the dojo ready but was unable to lead class, handing that off to Sal. No class next week at all due to my schedule conflict and Sal will be unavailable.
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5 min warmup
3 cycles, 4 stations, 30 sec workout/30 sec rest:
– hungarian squats w/ 30lb aux
– unstable one-arm press w/ 30lb
– horizontal chest pull
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Class with Hiroko. Several times through the Jo Kata, then free fighting drills 1 and 2.
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Class with Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Evan observed his first class. Stretch and requirements once through, then I reviewed the Tradition. During the break, we armored up and the second half we had 54 one on one sparring matches.
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Class with Hiroko. We worked on the Jo kata, initially going through it a few times, then working on bunkai, and finally going through it another couple times.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through. During the break, I setup four stations: thrust practice (hanging rings and a hay bale), two stations of Cutting Pattern 1 on square cabers, and a balance station of four round cabers in a square. We rotated through, one to the thrust practice and two to each other station. After, we finished with a full rotation of Refined Strikes.
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5 minutes warmup
3 cycles, with 30 sec rest between each item:
– 30 sec lunge with 90 degree torso twist and 20lb weight
– 30 sec pushup/pullup burpee
– 30 sec riser hop
– 30 sec ab roller