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 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 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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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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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 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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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through, plus I worked with Elijah and Jesse B a little once they finished their requirements. After the break, we had one on one sparring totaling 57 matches (Sal and mine were steel).
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Class with Sal, Joshua, Steven, Chris, Jesse A, and Jesse B. First class of 2013, started with a stretch and requirements. After requirements, we reviewed Thorn, then took a break. After the break, we started with 100 full circle cuts (wood), then did machinegun drill for head or neck, and finished with a two-defender/bi-polar non-stop machinegun drill for head, neck or decap.
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Final class of 2012, with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A and Chance. Jesse B called out. We went straight into requirements tonight, myself working with Jesse A. Chance arrived late, at which time I put him with Sal. After the break, we had dagger training, covering the general mentality that weapons are everywhere in various forms, differences in knives versus daggers, and the primary (killing) targets for knives and daggers. We then did refined strikes with daggers, followed by light unarmored (except mitts) dagger sparring, and we finished with some dagger throwing.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A and Jesse B. Requirements for the first half (I worked with Jesse A). After the break, we had balance 1 and 2 plus a mud zig-zag and hurdle. It was a challenging course; Sal made it once or twice, Steven a few times, and only myself multiple consecutive times (all but two). After I closed up the formal class, I did some more steel cutting practice with another pumpkin, and Joshua, Jesse A and Jesse B stayed for it as well.
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Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Jesse, including instructing him on Double Thrust, while Steven and Sal worked together. After a break, Sal, Steven and I had one on one matches, 30 total using a five-match-set round robin to get 20 matches for each of us.
During requirements, there was rain from moderate to torrential and the ground was quite muddy. As we began sparring, the rains generally abated though the mud was still quite prevalent. -
Class with Sal, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements. I reviewed Jesse B while Sal reviewed Elijah, then I reviewed Joshua while Sal reviewed Jesse A. I also instructed Joshua and Jesse A on Warrior Stance.
Near the end of the break, Sal and I did cutting patterns 1, 2 and 3 with steel, then for the second half of class we did a few rounds of refined strikes and finished with 2-attack machinegun drill for any upper target (head,neck or decap). -
Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements, then a break. After the break, we did add-on for a bit, then finished with 360 machinegun drill (i.e. opponents on all sides).
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I journeyed to the Half Moon Bay Dojo for the 2012 Best of the Best tournament. I achieved a 68% victory rate, which did not place, but I fought cleanly and was happy enough with my performance.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Jesse B and Elijah observed due to ankle injury. Requirements and a break. During the break, Sal and I did some steel parry and centered cuts. After the break, we paired off and did the Myo Sim partner drills 1 – 5 (attack, attack/block/counter, attack/block/attack, attack/block/preempt, attack/block/preempt/block/counter). We finished with balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah and Jesse B. Mark H. (from kendo and karate) observed and may join at a future date. Stretch and requirements one through. After the break, we had one on one matches (Jesse logged). I tried out my new shield tonight for some of the matches.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Elijah and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements (once through for Sal and I, twice for the other four). We took a break, during which Sal and I did steel Refined Strikes and Cutting Pattern 2, then in the second half I started with a new drill where we stood in a loose circle and every other person was designated attack left, block right, and the alternates were block right, attack left. On the count, we went back and forth, attacking any target, the blocking the incoming attack. Next we split into two groups of three and did defend/attack/observe parry. We finished with a round of three-upper-attack machine gun drill.
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Class with Joshua, Steven, and Elijah. Stretch followed by requirements. I reviewed Elijah in full while the other two worked together. Took a break to armor up, then had 27 one on one matches.
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Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch, then a focus session on Jumping Tiger 1 (a new move for Jesse). Followed with requirements, myself reviewing Steven to check his progress toward White Rope. After a break, Sal and I did worked briefly with steel, choosing three of our practiced moves to go over, then the main class resumed with some advanced response training, followed by refined strikes, and finishing with machine gun drill at half-ish speed, two attacks for any target (and Sal and I were permitted one counter attack).
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Class with Sal, Joshua and Jesse. Stretch and requirements the first half, then we armored up and had 24 one on one matches for the second half.
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Class with Sal, Chris, Joshua, Steven, Jesse, and Elijah. Requirements in the first half, then a break near the end of which Sal and I did steel Cutting Patterns 1 through 3. The second half I started with four dojo lengths of kneeling advances making decap cuts, followed by a study on basic movement, then 100 full circle cuts (Sal and I with steel). We finished with two-attack machine gun drill with any upper target (head/neck/decap).
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Class with Sal, Steven and Elijah. Stretch and requirements (paired Steven and Elijah, and Sal sith me). I gave Sal the move Umi and discussed striking to the hand. After a break, we had 18 one on one matches.
Temperatures were between 95 and 100.Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, and Elijah (though Steven had to sit out most due to continued injury). Stretch and requirements once through, then I instructed on Akira for everyone (a new move for Jesse A and Elijah). We took a break, then doe one attack parry, switching through a few partners, and finished with a pretty simple balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah and Jesse B. Sal, Chris and Steven all called out. Stretch, then requirements once through. After a break, we started with a multi-opponent drill. I had constructed a four-opponent kata for bunkai (roughly, “application”) during the break, and as we resumed I taught it to the students.
The person in the middle (Primary) starts with The Tradition as an attacker comes in with a head attack, then the Primary pivots 180 right with a thrust toward a second attacker that is closing from behind. The second attacker begins to step back, evading the thrust and Primary completes Dragons Tail. A third attacker attacks from Primary’s right with a neck cut to Primary’s left. Primary rises in right stance with a left head/neck block, making it a deflection to dash the third attackers blade to the side, causing the third attacker to begin to retreat. Primary cross steps in with a short chop to the neck or temple. The fourth attacker comes from behind with a left leg attack. Primary rotates 180 with a downward leg block, then continues the sword arc combined with a cross step diagonally left and forward to make a counter leg attack. With all four opponents down, Primary rotates 90 to the left, returning to the original orientation.
We cycled everyone through the center (Primary) position, taking turns as the various opponent roles. The key focus that I stressed was on flow, precision technique and economy of motion, not on speed.
We then moved to a multi-point machinegun drill (triangle, Jesse B having had to step out due to an issue with his knee). All targets were open, though each opponent had to signal they were coming (kiai or equivalent) before making their attack. We finished with linear two-attack machinegun drill, still with all targets open.