476 & 477
First class: Weapons
Drilled BO strikes and blocks, then BO 1 and BO 2 – moved on to Tonfa 1 for a few rounds.
Second class: Weapons
Drilled Tonfa 1 a few times then Sai 1 a few times. Learned the first bit of Sai 2.
454 + 455
Went to the Dojo early, hung out on the floor with Sensei a bit and then assisted classes and then some team stuff.
First class was weapons. We drilled BO: Strikes, blocks, combos, kick. Then did Bo1 and Bo2, 4-5 times each.
Brown & Blackbelt class was Seiunchin. We broke it down super slow, counted moves and just worked on precision. My legs are DEAD after today. And after all those hundreds of horse stances (Kiba Dachi). Ugh…
451
Weapons: Started with 3x each basic kick to warm up. Then drilled Bo strikes. Bo 1 twice and then broke off into groups. Worked Tonfa strikes and then Tonfa 1 3x times.
441 & 442
Pretty great set of classes. Got to the Dojo early to talk with Sensei a bit. Before we went out on the floor for team Sensei put me in the back room with another student, Nidan. Our instructions were to work out Bokken #5 form. With a certain bit of direction he gave. We worked through it for two classes then joined during second class. Where we then taught the form we’d just previously created. After doing some Sai drills.
Pretty awesome overall and i’m quite happy with what we came up with. Looking forward to working this form.
428 & 429
Had team dojo practice with the kids, then got into the adult classes.
Weapons/Kobudo:
Drilled Bo strikes and down blocks for about 15 minutes. Then drilled Bo 1 4x times. Then split up into smaller groups and drilled Sai strikes and then Sai 1 a couple of times.
Brown & Blackbelt Class:
Worked Chinto a good bit and got 5-6 moves farther into the Kata tonight. Pretty dang tough night and I feel like I just ran 3 miles… Worked hard tonight.