We’d like to welcome two new students, Karis and Sam Johnson, who are in their second month at the school and moving right along in their training. Sam trained in Shuri Ryu under Sensei Becky Harris, who, like the staff at our school, was a student of Hanshi Ridgely Abele. Sam earned his black belt […]
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Congratulations are in order for fifth-dans Thomas Seastrunk and Charlotte Bryant, who recently passed their Renshi exams for weapons (kobudo) in Shuri Ryu. Our system has separate tests for empty hand and weapons, with Renshi being the fourth level of six [the first level, Gakusei, is for kyu (under black belt) level and junior level
And thanks to Mrs. Sheridan (and Piper, her cute little doggie, for offering moral support) for the photos we’ve included. If you want to see more photos, go to Mr. Sheridan’s Facebook account: Sheridan Martial Arts. Enjoy!
Just returned from four-day trip to Muncie, Ind., where we (Charlotte Bryant and I) trained with Shuri Ryu Chief Instructor George Sheridan and some of his yudansha (including Cody Jones, Larry Hawkins, Lisa Privett and Brian Johnson). It was excellent training. We learned a lot, working on both weapons as well as empty hand, including
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Sorry, I am not the best blogger around. I will try to be better. We’re continuing to train, although I have been slowed because of a (left) knee replacement. I am eight weeks out from surgery. Doing well, probably better than most but still obviously not 100 percent. Surgeon says it’ll take 8 months of
One of our students – Dylan Padgett – earned his green belt Wednesday, May 24, following a test that included our usual physical exam (1 mile run for kyu-level students, 500 front kicks, 300 situps, five minutes punch backfist, 75 overhead strikes with 15-pound weights and a few pushups inserted during the technical part of
Just got this photo from our days in Hanshi Abele’s dojo at Meeting Street in Cayce. Certainly brings back memories.
Sorry, I’ve been away too long. Computer crashed and I was slow to get new one – and, well, been a bit lazy. I like training and not as diligent as I should be on our posts for the school. But a couple updates: We now have over a dozen students – and two just
Another good Saturday workout. Spent most of the morning working on nunchaku, focusing first on Tai Kyoku and then Wansu kata per our weapons theory applications as designed by Grand Master Robert A. Trias. Following that, we worked on O’Naihanchi – after working through each of the Naihanchi kata (ichi, ni, sanZ) separately,
Monday was a big night for the school. Our first test for promotion was held – and Dylan Padgett passed with flying colors, which in his case is a yellow belt (see attached photo). The test began with Shuri-ryu’s standard physical test (mile run, 500 front kicks, 5 minutes punch backfist, 75 overhead strikes with
