Tonight we did more work in three groups, one for kata, sparring, and basics. The class went well, I’ve found that teaching sparring at different levels presents some interesting challenges. I’ve found that we have some exceptional yellow belts in Mapleton, both Lexi and Jesse are very skilled for their rank. The white belts had […]

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Today marks the release of the new Xbox 360. I have an original Xbox, and I was marginally excited about the prospect of the new generation… until the price came out. For me, the biggest problem with the original Xbox was the lack of a good game library when it came out. I barely played […]

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I decided to sleep in today. That’s right… all the way to 10:30 am. And it felt good. My Mom had called me to ask if I wanted to join her for lunch. She works at a grade school so her lunch hour is noon to one. I elected to go a little early and […]

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Tonight’s workout was spearheaded by Oedewaldt. It was great, there was a real spirit of comaraderie in the dojo tonight. We decided as a group (it was Mike-san’s idea) that we should split into groups so each section of lower belt ranks could get a little of basics, sparring, and kata. Dukes and I took […]

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