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Hopefully any new stadium HAS A ROOF on it because playing football in a blizzard north of I-40 can’t be fun at all. Oh, one last thing…seeing that the taxpayers help finance the stadium, shouldn’t the taxpayers get tickets at a much more affordable prices?!? Ticket prices to a Raiders home game in the nose bleed section are, well, STUPID…gouging at its worse.

My Knights scored 5 goals in the 3rd quarter against the Kings for a 6-4 final!! GO KNIGHTS!!

There’s everything about this that I love. Removing redundancy at all costs and by all means. The unfortunate difficulty lies with the overbearing Governing Bodies because they want it their way as though their way is the only way; that’s ridiculous, of course, and that’s why our founder left the Okinawa powers that be. Their way, the Okinawa powers that be, is their way and it never has been the way of our founder, and it’s not my way. I don’t have to tell anybody about the Heisenberg Principle that says the act of observing a phenomenon changes it.

2/24/2026 Strength Training Squat: 45x5x2, 95x5, 115x3, 135x1, 155x5, 170x3, 185x1. Left knee was really sore. Taekwondo: 5:45 - 6:30 pm. Traditional Class. Taught. Prior to class I tried to do a little bag work in an attempt to warm up my left knee. It did not work. It was hurting pretty bad, and really limited my mobility. Basics: got through these, albeit it took a big chunk of the class. Lots of students today, too; 13 total. It's also the first week after testing, so we're hitting a lot of new material. Forms: We had white belt, high orange, low and high green, and a low brown belt that I had do low blue belt form. Finished with two 2nd dans doing Gae Baek. Sparring: 6:30 - 7:00 pm. Started the sparring session off with 10 minutes of one-steps. Then we got into some rounds of sparring. The rounds were short and quick with little rest between. Round 1: Regular sparring. Round 2: Any kicking had to be front leg kicking. Round 3: Closed stance only. No techniques could be thrown if stances were open. Round 4: Open stance only. Round 5: Each pair of sparring partners were confined to a puzzle mat square (same square). At least the front foot had to be in the square. They could switch stances, but a foot had to be in the square really quick.

I left that organization at the end of 2019, but they did require the Pinan kata for all students. They didn't dictate what order the kata had to be taught in, or what kata were associated with what ranks, just so long as you knew all of the kata by 5th Dan. Removing the Pinan series for adults was a change I made based on my discussions with my late Sensei on removing redundancy in the curriculum, but I wouldn't have been able to do that if I had stayed in the Shorinkan.

After a three-week NHL break the winners on the first night back were the Lighting, Sabers, Capitals, Stars, Golden Knights, Avalanche, Ducks, and Jets. Twelve more games on Thursday.

Some of the state legislation in Indiana passed a vote 95-4 supporting building a stadium for the Bears. Next it would have to pass the state senate, then be signed by the governor who has said he agrees with the stadium. If everything does pass the plan for the stadium is a multi-billion-dollar dome covered field that could be used for events year around. Possibly a future Super Bowl as well. The NFL has requirements that need to be met for a stadium to host a Super Bowl, and they tend to like domes more than open air stadiums so that there is not weather interference. The only way a place like Chicago gets a Super Bowl is with a dome. The league likes to put the game in warm weather climates, but we have seen the SB played in places like Minneapolis and Detroit because they are indoors. They did have it in New York/NJ one year but that is not typical and unlikely to happen again anytime soon. The Illinois governor is fighting to keep the Bears, but it is trending more towards the team going to Indiana. The stadium would likely cost the Indiana taxpayers at least 885 million dollars, with the possibility of it being much higher. Meanwhile the city of Chicago still owes about 500 million on Solider Field for renovations that were done in 2023. Crazy.

The one thing that I always stress to my students is that whatever the techniques found in a Kata, the bunkai isn’t always as one might assume. The Gedan Barai that a white belt might execute in, for example, Taikyoku Shodan, is not always what it appears to be. This is one reason why we teach bunkai starting at Jukyu.

Actually there is a PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) with eight teams (4 in the USA and 4 in Canada). Many of the players on both the US and Canadian rosters came from the PWHL. Speaking of their gold medal, the Mayor of Denver just invited them all to Denver for a proper celebration, since they declined their SOTU invitation.

In Uechi-Ryu our first rank kata, Kanshiwa is required for kukyu (9th kyu). Once a student has tested for and demonstrated a fundamental proficiency with that kata, their next 2 ranks require them to demonstrate the defending (for 8th kyu), and attacking (for 7th kyu) sides of the bunkai. The same applies to our next 2 rank kata, Kanshu and Seichin. At the ikkyu level, before students can actually test for shodan, they are required to re-demonstrate their Kanshiwa bunkai (which they first were tested on at 8th and 7th kyu), but demonstrate a black belt level of proficiency. At the shodan level, the student (among other things) must demonstrate the kata Seisan, and its associated bunkai. Furthermore, for every rank grading from 1st dan to 5th dan, the student is still tested on the seisan bunkai. We do this specifically for Seisan and Kanshiwa because among all the Uechi-Ryu organizations, they all have the same (or nearly the same) bunkai for those two kata. Other kata's bunkai is typically established by the organization or individual dojo. Every so often, we will also do self-defense appications derived from our kata. Some of these applications are directly out of the bunkai, some are variants of the bunkai, and others are based on principles in aikido. In each case though, we always start with the sequence from the kata before showing the application. IMO, learning a kata without its applications is only learning half of the story.

Sidney Crosby is expected to miss at least a month due to a lower body injury, so bad news for the Penguins. The Penguins also made a trade for Sam Girard and a 2028 2nd round pick while the Avalanche received Brett Kulak. Eight games on the schedule today as the regular season resumes. We will start to see how the long Olympic break impacts teams. Sometimes a break like this helps teams get healthy and regroup and other times teams come out flat and struggle.

In addition… Neither of us have to like the way any of us CI’s address a testing cycles because we have to do ‘you’, not ‘me’ or anyone else…just do ‘you’!! In the same chord, not one CI have to tolerate how any CI approaches how testing cycles are conducted because ‘I’ do ‘me’ and ‘I’ don’t do ‘you’ nor do ‘I’ ever want to do ‘you’ and ‘I’ surely don’t want ‘you’ to do ‘me’. We CI’s should be complete in our totality whenever it comes to how testing cycles are implemented across the board. If ‘I’ do ‘You’ long enough, ‘I’ will no longer be ‘me’, but ‘I’ will become ’you’ which ‘I’ have no interest in that whatsoever, and neither should ’you’. I don’t ever want to become a worse valueless shoddy imitational version of myself by losing sight of my integrity. Imho!!

My understanding of HOAs is that they can make things miserable. Many are not well managed and the people who run them are often unpaid volunteers who create petty rules and are selective about enforcing them. The goal behind the HOA is to make sure that people are taking good care of the outside of their homes to make sure they go up in value, but sometimes the board members abuse their authority, and it can be challenging for the homeowners the fight back.

Is there at least a syllabus, so that the students can practice on their own at home? I think a problem that can arise from this is the material they need not being covered on the day they show up Well, that’s the responsibility of the student to come to class. IMO, the very existence of tests already does that. The last BJJ school I trained at did belt promotions every quarter, but there were no tests. You were simply promoted based on how you were evaluated on regular training days To each MA school to their own. Testing Cycles were held once every 3 months, and once a year at the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle. However, Testing Cycle Candidates must petition to the Hombu, of which, not every candidate is eligible for said Testing Cycle. Unannounced or short notice? Because “unannounced” creates a “right place at the right time” scenario that leaves out guy that did movie night with wife and kids because he was unable to schedule that around the test Perhaps I misquoted myself. The Student Body knows the Testing Cycle schedule and that it’s held once every 3 months…March, June, September, and December; the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle was held every June/July. Exact date and time are posted 1 week before said Testing Cycle schedule. This is why I think the list of testable items need to be kept short. If the list is too long, there’ll be little to no time to do things that are not on the test Wells, our Testing Cycles have an exacting detail to them. Lower the rank being tested, the shorter the Testing Cycle. Higher the rank being tested, the longer the Testing.

Last Words by George Carlin

The NHL resumes on Feb. 25 with eight games.

I appreciate you saying that. Patrick, if my memory serves me correctly, took over my team, or for the most of the season, because I was struggling to keep up and such.

I don't recall you ruining it for anyone! I haven't played it since we last played either: plus i have the additional detriment of being in a country where baseball is barely ever mentioned so don't have the same exposure to information you all do (if this helps to persuade you!)

That’s quite sad because the WNBA players play their hearts out every game. There are some players that are beasts and could hang with the men with no problem. The Las Vegas Aces are quite a good team, having won 2 WNBA Championships. Unfortunately the WNBA, like Brian says, are barely viable. Crying shame!!

Sign me up, Brian!!

I'll suck, too. But it should be fun. We can play in the Toilet Bowl together, Bob!

Yeah, they will still be in the Kansas City metro area proper. Coach Andy Reid also quashed any rumors that Tyreek Hill might return to KC. He said "nothing's happening there" at this time. Things can always change, though. Hill would have to come in on a really cheap "prove it" deal to get back to KC.

I don't think so. I think they just have collegiate hockey and national teams. I'm not sure how financially viable a women's professional hockey league would be. My understanding is that the WNBA is barely viable.

2/22/2026 Strength Training Bench Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 115x3, 135x5, 145x3, 155x5. I need wrist wraps for this lift. My left wrist especially hurts on lift-off. Once it's out of the rack, it seems to be ok. I ordered a new pair as my oldest son has inherited my old pair. I'll play with my tolerance with the rep/set scheme as I move forward the next few weeks.

Regionals did not go well. Kenneth had his worst meet of the year. He had a bye first round, and then his first match up was against a very tall opponent he wrestled and lost to earlier in the year. Kenneth did well, though; he stayed tied up with him and got him to the mat a few times, but the kid was so tall he was able to leverage his way through and turn Kenneth. He ended up getting pinned in the third period. His first match on the backside was against a kid he had wrestled and beat 6 times this season. Well, the other kid won this time, in the first OT period. Kenneth had a great path on the backside ahead of him; all three opponents he had wrestled and beaten. He just didn't get it done this time, and the kid that did beat him in OT ended up qualifying for state. I've been sick to my stomach since then. It does sound like he plans on doing the Kid's season.