Thursday July 31st

I took only two classes today, partly because training here in the heat is difficult, and also because I needed more sleep than I got.

The 4:15 class was taught by Luke Machado. Today I was more familiar with the techniques they were all irimi entrance on yokomenuchi. I trained with John, a current uchi-deshi, and Pretti a very sweet lady from India.

The 5:30 class was taught by Ernie L. He is a very enthusiastic teacher. I was tired out about 20 minutes into his class. I trained with Allday, which is always fun. The techniques at the beginning of class were mostly projection throws from shoulder grabs. It was like sprinting for 20 minutes. Then he mercifully switched gears to some bokken work. We entered from ura and omote with wrist and head strikes from shomenuchi. We did some throws from the omote entry (with one partner having a sword and the other open handed).

Luis taught the last class and did a lot of morotetori techniques. Though I did not participate its always nice to see a familiar face and solid technique.

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  1. Sounds like you had a rough time with the sholder grabs. You seemed to take the randori yesterday very well, which techniques were getting to you?

  7. Oh there weren’t any particular techniques that were getting to me. It was just that I was running on empty. Besides, I’ve always found shoulder grabs annoying. They always pull my gi out from my belt and mess up my hair. I’m such a girl.

  9. Incognito and grassHopper, you missed a good class today. Buck taught katatetori and Tonya taught the second class.

    (I know Incognito is working overtime due to the storm.)

  10. Aww shucks… I was (we were) helping an old lady whose HUGE pine tree fell during the storm. From dawn to noon we were cutting it up and moving it to the street.

    So… who was Tonya’s first demonstration victim(s)? Did unfortunate uke walk away with a broken limb? Or did she flunk it? <(I think not. Still… 🙂 )

  11. Was she ok? Dee and I weathered the storm pretty well. We lost power intermittently.

    Tonya called Karl and myself as uke. I just checked, and none of my limbs are broken. 😉

    She did great, as always. I’m trying to get in shape for winter camp, and Tonya is training for New York.

  13. I had a bad couple of days at work because of that storm, but I got some overtime and stories out of it. I just got off my last storm shift today. I will be glad to get off of these 12 hour days. See you guys in class monday 🙂

  14. We should form a little circle between classes and have a little Fay story-time pow-wow where you can share, Incognito.

    (I do hope that sentence is at least somewhat grammaticlycorrect.

  15. Although not storm related, Ry–, I mean Incognito, has an article in this month’s newsletter. It’s a good read. I hope to publish it in the next day or two.

    Looking forward to training tonight.

  24. We probably will once we get to the new place. Everyone kind of starts taking mats up to get out as soon as they can afterward, and we can’t leave them out to air dry. If we were in a situation to wipe them down and leave we would probably clean them more.

    Why did emotioncons come up here?
    😈

  26. Tonya will start posting regularly in about three weeks, when she is in NYC. That should help.

    And now…a completely gratuitous smiley post!
    🙂 😀 🙁 😮 😯 😕 😎 😡 😛 😐 😉 😆 😳 😥 👿 😈 🙄 ❗ ❓ 💡 ➡ :mrgreen:

  28. To Incognito: Congrats on passing your 5th kyu test. I understand Doshu has lit a candle in your honor. 😉

    To grassHopper: It’s probably not a good thing. So how was my class tonight??

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