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2 in class tonight. So we worked on some doublestick sinawali to warm up. Then we spent the last 40 minutes of class looking at punch defenses.

NOTE: Due to the potential for severe weather, York County canceled all after school activities for Friday and all activities in their facilities for Saturday and Sunday. So there will be no classes this Saturday.

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4 in class last night. Continued review after the 2 weeks off due to gym maintenance.

Upcoming schedule thru mid September 2023:

Sep. 2-4, 2023: NO classes due to Labor Day weekend.

Sep. 7, 2023: A self study day at class – I am on work travel this week, so work together on techniques.

Sep 9-14, 2023: should be a normal classes.

Sep 15, 2023: another self study day at class – i will be at a martial arts training event this day – so work together on techniques.

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3 in class… the school system made us take a 2 week hiatus for work on the gym (though it does not look like anything was done 🙁 …).

Regardless, we resumed tonight with a review/reset of the basics up through purple belt.

Reminder:

Combat Hapkido classes resume tomorrow evening, Monday, August 28, 2023, at 6:30pm.

Bring a friend.

Today, we had an abbreviated class of 45 minutes because this was the day for the school’s Summer Pot Luck.

However, between the end of class and the start of the Pot Luck, we gave the parents and TKD students a 30-minute discussion/demo of Combat Hapkido and self-defense topics. We had a question and answer session as part of this demo. Some really good questions were asked and discussions ensued.

That was followed by a TKD student demo.

REMINDER: There will be NO classes tomorrow, Saturday, July 22, 2023, due to Master Marsell’s wedding.

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4 in class… started with 2 brown belts, 1 green belt and me. But today was testing say, so finished class with 2 new red belts (Kim, Sagan) and 1 new purple belt (Mike).

Congrats to all!

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2 in class… 1 brown belt and me… today’s class was repetition, repetition, and more repetition…

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5 in class… worked on basics, basics, basics… and slow down.

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4 in class. Today, we focused on 3 of the mainstays in the system… armbar, z-lock, and outside wrist lock.

The purpose was, “no matter how you are grabbed (or whether a punch is thrown), somehow get to one of those three”.

The intent was to try to “reconize a body configuration you’ve seen before”… therefore easier to deal with… for example, if you see a straight arm, you can hyperextend their arm, regardless of how you do it, hyperextend it.