Class with Chris G, both Bryce and Rakta Nadi called out. Being his first night, we started by covering the Three Rules of Swordsmanship and the Six Traditions, then went through stance, how to hold the sword, and head cuts. In the second half, we practiced moving in stance (combat movement) and finished with Balance 1.
Tag: silver chain
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1 mile run/walk @ 12m56s (1792 steps) — got a cramp halfway through, too much dinner too recently
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Got in an extra 100 FCC one handed steel
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200 FCC (steel 2H), 50 Gambit, primarily worked with one-handed tonight continuing to work on lateral evasion and moving into attacks.
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200 FCC (Steel), 50 Gambit, full through my silver chain requirements with tangents into how I might apply moves and techniques to be more effective.
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200 FCC (Steel), 50 Gambit, continued working on straight offense and aggressive offensive defense and evasion
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4×3 Tabata set: Reverse lunge (6lbs), crunches, divider hop, roller crunches
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200 FCC (steel), 50 gambit passes, and continued working on my aggressive straight offense and offensive defense.
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Class with Bryce, and Chris G observed. Rakta Nadi called out due to work. Stretch and Bryce’s requirements, with me wielding one handed matching him on every technique. We then spent some time on Jumping Tiger 1, working on dropping into the second full circle instead of rebounding, and varying the final target between forearm and head or even clavicle. After a break, we did a couple rounds of Add-On, taking them up to easily 20 or so techniques before I would feed him one that was too difficult to defend against. We then did a few rounds of Refined Strikes, and finished with Balance 1 & 2.
Chris is so far very interested and will be back next week for his second observation.
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Continuing to work on retraining my defense reaction to be lateral or in, with appropriate counter attacks.
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4×3 Tabata set: pop squat (10lbs), roller crunch, jumping jacks, plank dogs
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1 mile run/walk @ 10m22s (and about 90 degrees out!)
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4×3 tabata set: lunge, crunches, high knees, dead bug
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Class with Kaiden The Severer and Bryce. Stretch followed by requirements. First The Severer went through White Rope requirements with Bryce, then he and I stepped in together to cover the remaining requirements up to Silver Chain. After a break, we did a focus study on The Tradition, then a couple rounds of Refined Strikes, and finished with a couple rounds of restricted defense drilling, with opponents on either side taking turns making proscriptive attacks that the person in the middle had to defend against, first head or neck, the second round being neck or leg. It was a very good class, I always particularly enjoy training with The Severer, we have excellent discussions.
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More straight offense and offensive evasion and counter.
I also performed a light staff dance to Nightwish’s “Bye bye Beautiful”.
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Continuing to try and retrain my reaction for straight offense and aggressive defense, including evasive maneuvering instead of linear retreat.
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Focused on straight offense and offensive defense, working on furthering my alternate combat style, aggressive and in-close vs my default defensive and distanced.
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Evening jog/walk 1 mile with the dog. I didn’t plan well for this, ate a large dinner and despite a couple hours or so passing, still got bad cramping that limited my pace.
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3×3 Tabata set: Lunge w/ medicine ball, box/riser hop, high knees
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Worked on my straight offense using one of my target dummies to include good distancing and targeting. Working mostly 1 handed with my hand-and-a-half bokken right now, I’m pretty concerned about the tendonitis in my left elbow, so I’m doing what I can to reduce strain on it.
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Continued to work on straight offense and evasive offense. Also got in 25 gambit passes.
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Worked more on my straight offense, and on my defensive evasion.
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Class with Rakta Nadi and Bryce tonight, shifted from Thurs to Monday due to conflicts. Stretch and had them pair for requirements while I observed. We then worked on Cutting Pattern 2 a bit more, myself pairing with each of them, and then did some focus on Mantis. After a break, we had one on one sparring matches, myself 15 with each of them, and a total of 43 for the night.
I challenged both Rakta Nadi and Bryce to 10 matches, but I did not achieve my 8 cathan goal with either. I need to continue working on retraining my defensive retreat into lateral offensive evasion, as well as improving my ability to strike between/around the defense.
Turns out Mondays work for Bryce now, and they are good for Rakta Nadi, so we’ll be shifting to Mondays as of the 28th.
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1 mile run/walk @ 11m11s (1620 steps)
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4×3 Tabata set: hip pop (10lbs), crunches, reverse lunges (6lbs), mountain climbers