In Richard Sans absence, this week Tim San wound the clock back a few months and decided to take the class through some good old fashioned ‘high tempo’ partner training! Although a relatively small private tuition class, those in attendance on the Wednesday night session got stuck into another of Read more…
The Wisewarrior Challenges began in earnest this week but Tim San was flabbergasted to discover that nobody new about them despite countless posts on the Facebook page!! Better luck next time Sen! It is hoped that these challenges will help students with their weekly lessons and general practice, making things Read more…
More good syllabus work done this week with all students moving ever closer to their martial art goals. However Tim San; ever the technical task master, noticed students suffering with their stance work. To this end, as you have undoubtedly seen on Facebook and the members page of the website, Read more…
Sensei Mark Williams made preparations for his green belt sword grading this week. Monday saw him practising hard in Sensei Richard’s sword class, with the assistance of Sensei Nick Baldwin. Nick San; as part of his preparations for his own sword grading (Blackbelt in sword this December!) was tasked with Read more…
Bit of a short week for training this week, what with the Bank Holiday – Just as well we had some sun! Wednesday saw Tim San taking the Black Belts through the ‘Reflective Aikido’ Kata, and man what a cracking job they made of it. Its the first Kata of Read more…
It was lovely to see the sword group in action and ‘in motion’ this Monday night, and even better for Richard San when the higher grades just wanted to keep going with the sword class and not do their normal 2nd half ‘combat’ type sessions with Tim San next! 🙂 Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) It was this week’s sword class that captured Tim San’s imagination, as faced with some quite experienced swordsmen (and women), he quickly realised a basic lesson on resheathing wasn’t going to cut it!!! Instead Tim San borrowed the footwork from the first reflective aikido kata Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) They say selling a home is one of the 3 most stressful events in life, (i can’t remember what the other 2 are, but i’m sure taking black belt grading is in there somewhere!). Tor San, while trying to find somewhere new to live, is using every Read more…
Never a good idea to get Richard San on his soap box, and questions regarding Sword and Aikido will usually do the trick in the dojo! During Mondays lesson the Sensei in question was running a Sword class with Aikido students within it, with no Tim San around Richard San Read more…
BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Some advanced Kata work this week, at Mark sans request, which was reasonable considering his impending 2nd Dan grading!! Exactly what separates a 2nd Dan from a 1st Dan blackbelt is difficult to explain but obvious to see and mark san is shaping up very well! ________________________________________________________________ Ken-Kai-Ryu, Mondays, 7.45pm […]