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My trip to Thunder Bay

1/3/2015

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During the holidays I was in Thunder Bay and my sister-in-law, Shihan Susan Baldassi, invited me to her testing of a few students.  There were two children, one teenager, and an adult who were testing for different kyu ranks.  As you know, I do not teach kids but I sure do enjoy their energy in the class.  I love how they try so hard and how their kicks are so effortless.  Shihan Susan creates a great atmosphere of learning for her kids class, something that I could never achieve.   It was good to experience how others run a testing.   One thing that I liked was the self-defence portion in which students have to respond to random attacks.   I can only imagine the injuries that would be sustained if done in our dojo without establishing some ground rules such as: no striking, stop after someone does fake a hit that would have stopped you, do not go psycho and show restraint and control.  We will try this in class on Sunday and I will report back.

Happy New Year Toshikai!
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1/5/2015 11:52:09 am

Random self defence worked out pretty well last night. Clearly we need to be more of this to help the body learn how to react from the 1001 ways that one might be forced to defend themselves.

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1/27/2021 09:43:08 am

Nice blog you have

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