Tonights workout focused on the center. We all got a little nervous (not that way, ) when Sensei started talking about how he wanted to train too. He had that glint in his eyes that marked the end of life for all those in a twenty foot radius. The first class was very focused on […]

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My hand has been bothering me lately because of an aforementioned screw up two weeks ago on Saturday. On that same hand, I have a lingering sore spot from before I got my Nidan. I was going to go to the doctor to get it checked out, but I have found a most interesting salve. […]

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Dad and I were chatting at work today and we both agreed that we’d like to have another workout this week. Being forever innovative as he is, my Dad thought it would be fun to go and play with the makiwara until someone noticed that we were there and made us go away. Luckily, nobody […]

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I found out that a friend of my mom’s died two days ago. She had been suffering with MS for several years and had been in waning health for a long time, however she died of an embolism caused by a broken ankle that she recently sustained. She was a lovely lady and always took […]

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Tonights workout was marked by a blistering “fast burn” class lead by Sensei Brewer. We then did some sparring drills, during which I got across from Liam-san, a white belt who still has some stance and attention span trouble. After he realized that he was kicking at someone, he perked right up and did a […]

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Saturday’s workout consisted heavily of the fallout that came from my Italian dinner that I had on Friday evening. Having the garlic phoots when sparring proved to be a worthy defense vs. . The workout was spotted with kata, sparring, some more kata, more sparring, and rounded out nicely by a very enlightening conversation with […]

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Surprisingly, the Pekin test ended up being on the smallish side. As a result, we had a pretty smokin’ first class… I was dumping buckets of sweat like it was going out of style. There was a moment during the training when I took a mental note of how much liquid I had taken in […]

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This story begins as my beautiful wife and I return from our honeymoon in New Orleans. Somewhere in the middle of banjo country, my Service Engine Soon crackled on with a amber glow that meant I had to baby my car for the next 10 hours of this trip. We consulted the manual, which stated […]

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