He did some interesting things on escaping pins and attacking the arm from Kesa Gatame I will document them later. Good stuff, including a few things I hadn't seen in the past. He plays a very fundamentally sound game with a little bit of a rough old school approach. It was pretty refreshing as it's a little different approach than I have taken recently. He reminds me of the Steve Maxwell classes from back in the day. Easy to see them as contemporaries who started in a similar place. His team trained hard and seemed to be having a lot of fun. They have clearly outgrown their current space. I am looking forward to seeing the new space they will have the next time i come to his club. I considered training. If they had been training Gi, I would have jumped into the sets. But, there was a long day of the re-certification ahead and I didn't want to be drenched in sweat and tired for the seminar.
The re-certification went very well. I learned some new twists on teaching the F.L.A.G.women's self-defense system. The more I see this the more I am convinced that this is the best sexual assault defense course I have ever seen. i agree with both the technical philosophical approach and am looking forward to teaching it more in the future.
The Sunday Certification on defense against weapons also went well. It took a similar approach in being pretty low-tech and fundamental. emphasizing basic positions and avoidance of dangerous situations. I hope to do a seminar on this in the near future to solidify the teaching process for the techniques in my head.
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