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Modern Arnis Class Notes 11.06.2013

(Luke, Phil, Jack, Bob)

Worked in lots of forward figure eight line work and block check counter work. Jack worked a bunch with Bob the block check counters. And worked on the first 5 disarms.

Luke and I worked various entrances of a 1 strike for disarms, throws and strikes. Emphasis on flow, and working up the body from the wrist, fore arm upper arm, torso, neck etc....

-Phil

Modern Arnis Class Notes 11.04.2013

(Jason K, Jack, Hannah, Phil)

Jason and Hannah worked on angles of attack and few other items while I worked with jack on counters to disarms.

Then we spent the rest of the class working reps of striking styles.

-Phil

Adult Karate Class Report 11-4-13 Sensei Angus Reid

Adult Karate Class Report 11-4-13

Angus Reid leading, Ron Milcarek assisting, five other students attending

Had a good class with a nice spectrum of ranks attending (white-yellow-purple-brown-black). I tried to give options in the drills to make it challenging for the advanced students, while still being approachable for those with less than a year of training. Warmed up with the 10, standing kicks, and a few rounds of partner shadow-sparring, then a short stretching session. 

With a partner we did a variation on a kicking exercise I borrowed from Mr. Chaisson, in which the partner holds a stick at about hip level for the kicker to kick over and retract back over, to train the knee raise and swivel-in-place action of the hip as opposed to a rising, swinging arc of a kick. For added difficulty (for skilled kickers), the stick could be brought closer to the hip, forcing a higher knee raise and tighter hip/pelvis swivel. We used the standing bags as a target, and did first the front-leg side kick, then a rear leg crecent-side kick combo, and then the front thrust kick. 

We ran through the katas once together, with the beginners dropping back. I observed Alex's Naihanchi and Cherie's Seisan; both looked good, and I think they'll be quite ready when the opportunity comes to test them. Alex's Naihanchi is pretty good slow- my advice to him was to just keep performing it over and over until it is flowing with power and speed, and then we can give him big corrections on the application of that. Cherie is not quite at 100% confidence on Seisan – still has to stop and think at points what the next move is. There are some moves that she is doing differently enough from me that I think she may have a newer version of the kata than I, so I didn't correct her but just told her to check with Sifu on some of the points to make sure she is practicing them correct. 

With the last 20 minutes we put on gear and did several round of free sparring, and I saw everyone trying to use the crescent-side kick combo we had practiced to the bag. 

Ma Yueh Liang - Wu Style Fast Tai Chi

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