Brown & Blackbelt class. We had O’Sensei Hess for class again. We built upon what we started for Self Defense in the earlier class. Adding a shoulder toss and then a quick parry and block maneuver. We worked pretty hard and I enjoyed it immensely. The thing I liked most was having O’Sensei tell stories of Zen Shotokai and more about the old days of Karate.

Last we went over the Zen Shotokai challenge coins and the rules and gifted O’Sensei his. Great, great night of Karate.