Our Saturday workout this week was extremely useful, as always. We did the test basics (intensively in some cases) followed by an idea that I came up with: our kata (Empi) in sets with the other three black belt kata. I think it helped out to get used to to the pacing of having to […]

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On one of my trips to the can, I noticed that the vending machine stocks CHILI CHEESE FRITOS! For those of you that came late to the game, these were my favorite chips for many years but cause Super Destructo Gas. The kind that could be used to take the paint off of a bulldozer. […]

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Last night we had to do some moving of stuff from Tasha’s granddad’s house. Tasha had just gotten her basket kit, so we elected to go over to my parents house last night for a little while to let her show off her new stuff. During that time, my mom made some crack about getting […]

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Last night we were on the stage, which always lends itself to cramped quarters and interesting partner drills. I led warm-ups and then we got taken through a decent basic workout, complete with self-defense partner drills. had everyone brown belt or higher get in one line and had the lower ranks pick their partner from […]

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I will speak of both of these workouts together because they were largely the same. The main difference being the presence of Sensei Brewer for #37. Either way, we did the classic pencil control test during the first class. I helped instruct during workout #37, but last night’s workout I got to actually try the […]

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On Saturday we elected to run through the Nidan test with watching us and making corrections. Of course, this illicited the cottonmouth test-nerves as I hoped it would, and I proceeded to suck ass for the rest of the workout. Surprisingly, Sensei picked a Heian kata for Mike and I to do which both confused […]

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I’m not going to say too much about workout #33 as it was fairly mundane compared to the onslaught of last nights workout. We get to the dojo and do some simple warmups… right before class, disappears for a few seconds which is fairly normal, but when he returns he has a dry erase marker. […]

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Last night’s workout marked the triumphant return of as well as one of our elder Nidans that was out due to back injury. Sensei Brewer decided to take this opportunity to leave us in stance for most of the first class, which was both difficult and beneficial. By the end, I was starting to feel […]

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