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Saturday we trained outside in the open at the Squires Castle Park. The weather was clear, but crisp and cold. We did our usual Sanshin exercise and then we worked on Oni Kudaki with a cane. Tom purchased some training canes and brought one to class to demonstrate how to use it as an extension of our taijutsu. Very cool class! We worked on angles and timing to get the cane in place to grasp the elbow and of course, distance was also a main ingredient as always.

Sunday we trained for about three hours. We began with our usual Sanshin and Kaiten. To make working on our Ukemi and Kaiten more interesting Tom spread training knives all over the floor and told us to practice picking up a weapon as we rolled. It was a fun way to work on this important aspect of our Taijutsu. After our normal exercises we worked on ways to remove an attacker from beating another person. We made use of the Karate School’s standing bags to emulate a person being attacked. We also used a heavy bag on the floor for the same purpose. It was a fun and interesting class. Below are some pictures from today’s training:

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