Tonight’s class was lightly attended, as is the tradition on Thursday nights lately. The first class was comprised of partner drills focused on blocking. I had the good fortune of being across from Trent-san tonight, it was a good solid basic class. For reasons unknown, my stance and my technique were not firing together tonight. […]

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Tuesday night it seemed that everyone was keyed up and ready to spar. and I mixed it up a little before class which was both nicely paced and fun. We both took a few good shots, I got a few bruises, he got a few bruises… the usual. The first class consisted of a few […]

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Continuing on the strange and horrifying trend of creativity that I was riding last week, I was tapped to start class on Wednesday night in Mapleton. I was a little short on ideas for running a class, and I was hesitant to revert back to a boring ol’ basic workout after the fun we had […]

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Last Tuesday, I was surprised to find that I was one of the few black belts that showed up. and I began class, and I decided to repeat the format from several weeks ago where we split the group up into two sections and one side does kata while the other does strengthening exercises to […]

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