I watched my Dan test on DVD for the first time this afternoon. It is obvious to Mike, Dave, and I all peaked for that test. And we all looked like rabid dogs in the sparring sections of the test. Sensei Brewer was right… you can almost tell who comes from whose dojo based on […]

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It was sweeps again today. We had a pretty short period of warming up, followed by an extended period of beating on each other. I was lucky enough to be across from Erbe-san during most of the sweeping exercises, and a few times I was actually able to pull off a sweep that actually worked. […]

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