Along with some solid training – we also added another new student today – we have put up our Shuri-ryu Pine Tree along with photos of Soke Robert A. Trias, O’Sensei Robert Bowles, Hanshi John Pachivas & Hanshi Ridgely Abele. It really looks good.
This past week was a solid working week for our school. We had classes Monday and Wednesday afternoon/evening, working on kata and our “short forms” – ippons, kihons & taezus. On Friday met with one of our nidans and brown belts for a 2 1/2-hour workout, working through 1-20 ippons and kihons. And then Saturday
Sorry there was no post last weekend. I was out of town last week at a three-day seminar – the annual Shuri-te Bujitsu-kai Martial Arts International Conference, which was again in Fort Mill. As always, it was a great event, with many classes for students (and aren’t we all students?) of all ranks and interests.
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Sorry, didn’t post last week. Was busy at my job. But, as we did last weekend – not to mention Monday and Wednesday nights, our group was hard at work Saturday. We spent a couple hours (after stretching, etc.) working on Kihons 1-13. There was plenty of sweat as we worked through the basic interpretation
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We greeted some of the “old guard” back Saturday for training – Brett Netherton and Mickey Thomas (who had worked out a few weeks back with us as well) have joined us full time. They were long-time students of Hanshi Abele and are now back working with us. We had a good, two-hour sweat-stained workout
Added to our work last week with the Bo, including working through not only Bo theory with Tai Kyoku but Wansu Kata, which is much more fun – and challenging – to do with the Bo. After a couple hours, we left the floor to our GAT-Arnis brothers.
Had good workout this morning with Bo. We went through Bo theory as designed by Grand Master Robert A. Trias. We also worked on a basic 6-step Bo defense and attack series.
