Class with Hiroko and Ivan. 100 continuous cuts. Standing iai 1 – 8. One step techniques 1, 2 and 4.
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Class with Sal, Chris, Nate, Charlie and Jesse. Joe called out. Stretch and requirements twice through with different partners. I worked with Charlie and Chris. After a break, we had one on one sparring followed by three melees. Jesse got his first 13 sparring matches tonight from myself, Sal and Charlie.
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Class led by Brad, several students present. Stretch and warm up, then attack combinations with partners, followed by blocking combinations. The combinations were oi zuchi – mai gerri, mawashi gerri – urakken, and yoko gerri kokome – urakken. We finished with some ippon kumite.
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Class with Hiroko. One step techniques 1 – 6.
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Class with Sal, Chris, Joe, Charlie and Jesse. Requirements twice through. I did focus sessions with Jesse (including teaching the I Move), and Joe. After a break, we had three circles of unarmored 3, 4, and 5 attack parry, the focus being attack combinations and good cuts, blocks and control. Initially I did armored (open) parry with Jesse, then we joined the rotations of partners. After the parry, we did a machinegun drill where each attacker made two attacks of any kind they have been instructed on.
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Class led by Brad with six other students. Stretch and warm up. Heian Shodan focus session, starting very slow and steadily increasing the rate, followed by Basai practice. Finished with ippon kumite.
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Class with Sal, Nate, Charlie, Joe, and Jesse. 100 full circle cuts, then requirements a couple (or few) times through with alternate partners for everyone but Sal. I worked with Sal separately reviewing his requirements and adding kata ni. During a break, I did unarmored parry with Jesse, then after the break we had a total of 29 one on one matches (with Jesse logging).
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Final session with Justin.
Repeat 4 times:
Bulgarian one leg squat with 45lb weight (10 each leg)
Decline unstable pushups (12)
Wave rope (30 sec)
Slider tucks and pikes. (30 sec)Extreme Treadmill: walking forward, side slide, walking backward, (other) side slide, walking forward, walking backward, transistion to reverse wall climber (pushup position, hands off end, feet moving on tread), 180 to face up, 180 back to rev wall climber, transition back to reverse walking.
Walking leg stretches.
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Class led by Brad. Only three other (new) brown belts in attendance. We did a long focus session on moving with our hips, using our core to pull together smoothly, quickly, and without external clues. Started with no hands, then light hands, then worked with partners as targets, chudan first, then jodan. We finished with some Basai.
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Repeat 4 times:
one leg weighted hungarian squats (30 sec)
pullup and pushup burpees (10)Repeat 3 times:
weighted squat pops (30 sec)
horizontal pull up (10)
wave rope (30 sec)Repeat 3 times:
lat unstable medicine ball squats (10 each side)Repeat 3 times:
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Class with Sal, Chris, Nate, Joe and Jesse. While in seiza, spoke about yielding vs not yielding. Stretch and 100 (+20) full circle cuts (boken), then requirements twice through for most of the students. I worked with Jesse, giving him The Illusion and reviewing his progress, as well as working with Nate on basic cuts and briefly with Chris.
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Repeat 4 times;
Half-off one arm press (10)
One leg sits (10)
Decline push-ups, unstable (10)
Wave rope (30sec)
Plank sliders (30sec)Repeat 4 times;
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Went to karate tonight, instructed by Brad. Long warm up stretch, then kihon, followed by Hadon Shodan, Hadon Sandon, Hadon Yodan and Hadon Godan. I was a little rusty on the first pass through some of the kata, and was sweating a lot in stance, but had no problems otherwise.
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Class with Hiroko and Ivan. We went over our plan for the exhibition next week for the Redding School for the Arts II. We’ll start in seisa, triangle formation with Hiroko at point. She’ll doing kneeling iai 5, then Ivan and I will stand (with her) and Ivan will do standing iai 1, she’ll do standing 2, and I’ll do standing 7, after which Ivan and I will do one minute of 1-attack parry and one minute of 3-attack parry while Hiroko prepares for her Shotokan demonstration.
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Class with Sal, Chris, Charlie and Jesse. During seiza, I talked about judging appropriate contact levels for combat, when and where to use light, medium and full contact, and I quized them on target areas for different levels. We went through requirements once, then I re-paired them for once more through cutting pattern 1 and seven moves of their choice. After the break, we had 32 one-on-one matches, using a best-of-three format (two ai uchis).
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Repeat four times:
medicine ball wall bounce squats (30 sec)
horizontal pullups (12)
slider pushups (3×5) with seal walk
jump rope (75)
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Class with Sal, Chris, Nate, Charlie and Jesse. I paired the other students by rank and worked with Jesse, reviewing his basic cuts and blocks, and then instructing him on thrust and thrust block. I then paired Jesse with Charlie, Nate with Chris, and reviewed Sal’s White Rope requirements.
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Second day at Arata, with 7 steel fighters and 1 steel choreographer (Sal, green braid). Two sets of 15 rounds.Weather today included bouts of light right, making for light mud in the arena.
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5 min warm up
four lengths of the room with rubber band thigh expander slide
30 second, 4 repeats:
hip popper squats
bi-level pushups
pull ups
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Class with Sal, Chris, Nate, Joe, and Jesse. Twice through on requirements for everyone else while I worked with Jesse on review of his cuts and blocks from last week, and adding decap and leg cuts and blocks. After the break, we had Blind Man’s Boffer, Balance 1 & 2, and a combination of Balance 1 & 2 with a gamut provided by the students not currently running the course, initially as stationary targets, then as quarter speed attackers.
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5min warmup walk
30 seconds each, 30 second rest, repeat 4 times:
lateral lunge
decline pushups
assisted pullups
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Class with Sal, Chris, Charlie and Jesse’s first night. Requirements twice through while I worked with Jesse on basic head and neck cuts and blocks. After the break, we had one on one matches with the addition that legs and arms were temporary wounds that healed in 3 – 5 seconds unless the opponent was killed with a good head, neck or torso cut.