In between classes last night, I was helping Erbe-san with his jyu-ippon sparring for his Shodan test. I took a break after that to talk to Sensei Hartman about the aforementioned Crash incident, and Sensei Brewer leaned over during our conversation to inform me that “I spar like I’m 20 years older than I am.” [...]

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Last night I was given the esteemed privilege of instructing the yellow and red belts in their sparring drills. Sensei Brewer said he trusted me to be able to work the red belts on one time attack and yellow belts on three time attack. There weren’t very many of them, two red belts that paired [...]

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Wow. When I went to bed at 12:30 last night it was 242-200, and I was sure that Bush had retained his stranglehold on the country. When I got up this morning, I was surprised to find that it is now 254-252 in favor of Bush, with three states still outstanding. Where does the last [...]

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