Good class today. Thank you Sensei Sasha for coming to class even though you didn’t feel well. Created our own 10 kick series and did some grappling. Whenever you are grappling and trying to reach the cone, remember to always put yourself in between the cone and the person who you are stopping. Always keep in front of them so that they can’t rush past you. Also, when trying to stop someone, don’t just grab onto their legs and hold on like an anchor, make sure to go after the entire body so that you can lock them up. For people who are trying to get to the cone, try spinning and rolling over the person to get to the cone. Don’t try to take your opponent head on, you make it much harder on yourself, instead when they push you, shift their hands and deflect their body weight off to the sides so that you can throw off their balance. Pushing back and forth like sumo wrestlers is not very effective, spin, roll, and shift your weight in order to throw your opponent off. Make sure to also take advantage of every mistake your opponent makes. See you all Thursday, and remember what Sensei Hope said about your attitude and humility!

Sorry I didn’t get a chance to update this for a few days. I was in Miami for the weekend.

In either case we worked on kicks today. We went over quite a bit of your kicks in addition to learning 2 new kicks.

We learned the Axe Kick that comes up high over the oppenents shoulder and down hitting with the heel. Usually striking the collar bone.

We also learned the outside-to-inside crescent kick. Which is effective for hitting away weapons, strikes, and so on.

Another thing we went over was the difference between thrust and snap kick. Remember - A thrust kick is extended all the way through where as a snap kick is pulled back and is extended usually 70-80 percent of the way.

At the end we played Red-Rover kicking game. Where you had one foot on the tape and each person has to go over from the other team to try and THRUST through the bag and get your foot off the tape.

Advanced:

Thanks Mr. Frank for visiting us and for your input.

We worked on self defense techniques with knife strikes a majority of the time. Using pencils and pens as substitutes and went over the rules of a weapon.