Yesterday Hanshi Doug Perry came to the church campus that my dojo is located at to hold a karate seminar. He is a Kudan (9th Degree Black Belt) under Shuguro Nakazato, which makes him the highest ranking non-Okinawan in Shorin-Ryu karate, and…
Last night in class we worked a lot of multiple attacker drills and a bodyguard drill, and I thought they were all very fun and useful. Before we started those drills, though, we wore ourselves out with jogging, calisthenics, bagwork…
For quite some time I have been considering signing up for an amateur MMA fight in the Phoenix area–there are a couple different organizations that hold amateur MMA fights and I have had them bookmarked in my browser for over…
For a while, now, I have been wanting to spar more--even though I do not particularly like sparring--because I find it to be incredibly valuable. In the spirit of that and of trying to build our dojo's name recognition I proposed the idea of an open sparring meetup to my instructor.
The equipment that Jason built for us has been working out very well, and I've decided to call it the EMB Station. While I was at the dojo today, I decided to take some nicer pictures of it to upload. This is probably the most pictures I've ever put into one post, so hopefully people with slow connections don't have too much trouble!
