Class led by Stewart Sensei. Kihon oizuki and maegeri keage. Kata Heian Sandan approx 15 times, Kata Enpi approx 10 times. Machinegun drill (also referred to as being “in the pit”) with attacker moving in with jodan oizuki and defender making chudan gyaku zuki with jodan deflection permitted.
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I attended the Saturday session led by special guest Godan James Uyeda Sensei. The entire session had a focus on irimi, the concept of moving directly into an attack with your own attack. It is similar to sen sen no sen (preemptive attack that may include evasive movement and additional “counter attacks”), but more direct in that it, in some way, ignores the opponents attack and moves directly in as if into the eye of a storm. There was also some tangential discussion of sen no sen (block and counter at the same time), including a thought that we should be teaching that from the start and not even bothering with the more basic go no sen (block, then counter) which just builds bad habits and ineffective timing.
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Special 3 hour session led by Yodan Nihad Khalaf. Focus on kicks, combinations, and kumite (ippon, sanpon, jiyu ippon). Finished with review of favorite kata.
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Special 2.5 hour session led by Yodan Nihad Khalaf. Focus on kihon, first few Heian series kata, and escape techniques.
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Class led by Haycraft sensei. New yoga-inspired stretch and then a focus on yokogeri kokome (side thrust kick), including chained and multiple kicks. Basai a number of times through, and then favorite kata a number of times (Heian Godan for me).
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Class led by Merv. Stretch and then we moved directly into practicing a combination: mai-te, gyaku zuki, mwasha geri. After a few laps of this, we started some 50% – 80% jiyue kumite. Later we also tried a four technique variant and then continued with more kumite.
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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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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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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.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch and warmup including a reverse lunge/squat where you start in a lunge with reverse punch, then rise on the forward leg performing front kick with reverse punch, then sink back to original lunge position.
We then moved into some partner drills exploring the kumite concepts of the decision branch regarding whether to get inside the mah or stay outside the mah when an opponent attacks. This started with basic space analysis and control and evolved into some light jyu kumite.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch, pushups and squats. We then focused on Teki Shodan and Teki Nidan for a long time. Moved on to ippon kumite with a focus on kibidachi zuki counter and finally sanpon kumite still using kibidachi zuki counter.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch and warm up with 20 push ups and 20 slow squats. Kihon oitsuki, gedan barai, age uke, uchi uke, ude uke. Ippon kumite focusing on applying good age uke in kokutsodachi. Ended with Tekki Shodan several times through.
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Class led by Brad. A couple more new people tonight, so another class of kihon/basics. Focus on stance, oi tsuki, gedan barai and age uke with gyaku tsuki, yokogeri kiagi, yokogeri kokome, maigeri kiagi, and then the upper students finished with Heian Godan while Brad worked with the new students.
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Class led by Brad. Kihon review for the beginners, going over oi tsuki, gyaku tsuki, gedan barai, age uke, uchi uke, and tetsui uke. We went through Taikyoko Shodan a few times, then the upper ranks worked on Heian Sandan and Basai several times each.