Sunday, May 18, 2014
"PROMOTIONS" ON THURSDAY, 15 MAY
Nicholas N. received the second stripe on his brown belt and I received the white "instructor tips" on my black belt this past week from Charles Dos Anjos.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
FIRST PRACTICE OF THE NEW YEAR
SATURDAY, 4 JANUARY 2014
Today marked the first practice session of 2014 for me and the crew, and also the first practice at the new AFR facility. I have to say that the practice area is fantastic. It is approximately 4000 sq. ft. of contiguous mat space, so we sould have 3-4 standing judo randori sessions, and probably 10 BJJ grounds sessions, going on simultaneously.
For BJJ, it was me, Kyle, and Jason. We worked on headlock escapes on the ground. We were not working on escaping kesa gatame, but escaping pure headlocks where the opponent does not have an arm. I figure that we should work on something "simple" like that since the idiots on the street might just grab onto our heads and not let go.
For judo, Tony M. and Robert P. joined in with our "non-professional" group of aspiring judoka. We will have to use each other to see what we are doing right and wrong, and we will have to drill the throws relentlessly.
We went over a modified o-soto-gari, sasae-tsuri-komi-ashi, and ko-uchi-gari. The crash pad helped tremendously, of course, since we could throw. We did not randori.
Today marked the first practice session of 2014 for me and the crew, and also the first practice at the new AFR facility. I have to say that the practice area is fantastic. It is approximately 4000 sq. ft. of contiguous mat space, so we sould have 3-4 standing judo randori sessions, and probably 10 BJJ grounds sessions, going on simultaneously.
For BJJ, it was me, Kyle, and Jason. We worked on headlock escapes on the ground. We were not working on escaping kesa gatame, but escaping pure headlocks where the opponent does not have an arm. I figure that we should work on something "simple" like that since the idiots on the street might just grab onto our heads and not let go.
For judo, Tony M. and Robert P. joined in with our "non-professional" group of aspiring judoka. We will have to use each other to see what we are doing right and wrong, and we will have to drill the throws relentlessly.
We went over a modified o-soto-gari, sasae-tsuri-komi-ashi, and ko-uchi-gari. The crash pad helped tremendously, of course, since we could throw. We did not randori.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
GOT TO PRACTICE WITH ETHAN DURING THE HOLIDAY
I just wanted to say that Ethan E., my blue-belt Navy student who now resides in Virginia, practiced with us while he was down here for the Christmas break.
It was very neat having a black belt (me), a brown belt (Nick), a purple belt (Jason), and a blue belt (Ethan) that I "created" on the mat at the same time.
Kris
It was very neat having a black belt (me), a brown belt (Nick), a purple belt (Jason), and a blue belt (Ethan) that I "created" on the mat at the same time.
Kris
WE MOVED WITH AFR AGAIN
WEDNESDAY, 1 JANUARY 2014
Here we are in 2014 and AFR has another new location. Yes, Jason and I helped them move out of their "new" location, which had its opening on 23 September, on 20 December.
The new location is:
1045 Blanding Blvd., Suite 209, Orange Park, FL, 32065
Here we are in 2014 and AFR has another new location. Yes, Jason and I helped them move out of their "new" location, which had its opening on 23 September, on 20 December.
The new location is:
1045 Blanding Blvd., Suite 209, Orange Park, FL, 32065
Thursday, November 28, 2013
SATURDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2013
23 November 2013
We held a mixed BJJ/judo/MMA class on Saturday from 2:45 until 5:45 since Greg was out of town. It is nice to tie together takedowns, grappling, and strikes...all with the gi...and see what we can learn along the way.
We held a mixed BJJ/judo/MMA class on Saturday from 2:45 until 5:45 since Greg was out of town. It is nice to tie together takedowns, grappling, and strikes...all with the gi...and see what we can learn along the way.
OH YEAH....NEW LOCATION
28 NOVEMBER 2013
Since I have been so bad in posting things, I forgot to mention that we have moved our location since AFR Christian Karate departed from their location to make way for Panera Bread.
Our new location is at First Assembly of God Orange Park. The address:
1324 Kinglsey Avenue
Orange Park, FL 32073.
We have the entire upstairs of the gym, in an area that was once a private Christian school.
Since I have been so bad in posting things, I forgot to mention that we have moved our location since AFR Christian Karate departed from their location to make way for Panera Bread.
Our new location is at First Assembly of God Orange Park. The address:
1324 Kinglsey Avenue
Orange Park, FL 32073.
We have the entire upstairs of the gym, in an area that was once a private Christian school.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
ALABAMA TRIP: 10 OCTOBER - 13 OCTOBER
I made a trip up my northern command post, aka McCalla, AL, to train with Matt Hobson and his crew for four days back in October. I have been a bit slow in posting.
While there, we got in over 17 hours of training, and I even taught three group classes (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday). We were able to review and even offer modifications of techniques in the syllabus that he uses to teach from.
While there, I also added two stripes to Matt's purple belt.
While there, we got in over 17 hours of training, and I even taught three group classes (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday). We were able to review and even offer modifications of techniques in the syllabus that he uses to teach from.
While there, I also added two stripes to Matt's purple belt.
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