bushido_man96

Sorry for you loss, Liam.

The Chiefs/Bills game started out great. KC squandered two drives early in the third quarter, and that made the difference. I hate seeing the loss to the Bills, but they can have the regular season win; I'll take the one in the postseason.

The fight was not as fun to watch as I'd hoped it would be. I kept waiting for Tyson to wade in and land one of those flurries, but it never happened. Netflix was just terrible. I couldn't get the fight to load up, so I had to find another way to watch it, which was less than ideal. Very disappointing. I hope that's not a sign of what's to come when Netflix airs live football coming up.

Sounds like things get crazy! I'll have to tune back in.

Something our Aikido dojo does is keep track of the number of hours trained during the time-in-grade. So being the rank for certain amount of time is one requirement, but also hitting the appropriate number of classes is taken into consideration. I guess you could say it's a combination of time-in-grade and activity-in-grade.

Almost 19 years now Bob. 11/18/2024 Aikido: Morning Class: 8:30 - 9:30 am. After stretching and aiki-taisos, we worked techniques that I'll be tested on. We did kokyonage, kotegashi, ikkyo, and nikkyo. There was a few times where I noticed I was getting on my heels when stepping and moving, so I tried to fix that. I also worked on doing a big circle on the kotegashi technique to get the positional results I wanted. For the nikkyo applications, we did a dynamic and a static version. On the static version I was able to really focus on my hip movement.

Welcome back Stonecrusher. How would you say your style differs from what you've done in Wing Chun?

I've been a pin cushion before, Aurik; no fun there. It sounds like everything else went really well, though! I'm happy for you! After Thanksgiving, you should be raring to go!

11/12/2024 Range: 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Night shoot. We shot pistols, back-ups, rifles, and shotguns.

Going 17-0 in the AFC seems a tall task, for sure, and not one I think is going to happen. I was shocked they blocked that field goal to win last week, and this week they face Buffalo. I sure hope KC is ready to go. The head-to-head win against Buffalo would be huge going forward. But it is going to be tough game.

Happy Veterans Day!

I'm going to try to tune in Friday. I think the first time Tyson catches Paul, he's going to realize that he's never been hit that hard before.

Finally back to getting some work in after missing a week. My head did a big reset on me. It seems to happen this time of year every year. No idea how to deal with it. 11/9/2024 BJJ Class: 10:00 - 10:40 am. Back control focus. Three of us in class, so we did round-robins in the drills. 1. Referee's position, top guy lock hands. Top focus was to break the bottom guy down onto his hips and just control for as long as possible. Bottom guy's job was to escape/reverse (win). 6 min. This went ok to start out. I could get the grip broke and hip heist out a few times, but Kendall thought I was putting myself in a bad position when doing that (and I very well could have been, since the drill would end with the escape). I could break down Kendall's hips and hold him a little while. When I would lock up the instructor from behind, he could move well and often got me on my back. I got into bad position trying to hold on. Probably not following with my hips enough. 2. Same drill, but the top guy could break hands and get a seat belt grip, a 2-on-1, and put hooks in. Bottom guy had the same job, escape/reverse (win). 6 min. The instructor let me work from bottom, and I could find points to gather the arms up and get things moved around and got to mount position a few times. I couldn't break Kendall's hips down this go around, though. Not sure what I wasn't doing right, but he stayed pretty solid. 3. Now we went to a seated position with the "top" guy in the backpack position, underhooks and hooks in the legs. Top guy's job was to work to isolation of head/arm, to get to a rear naked choke, armbar, triangle, or whatever (win). Bottom guy still working to reverse/escape/etc. (win). 6 min. The instructor gave a few pointers during this drill. When bottom here, and they have your back, getting your shoulders flat to the mat was the key. I'd drive back onto the "top" person and then try to get flat to the mat...it really helped out. He pointed out that the "top" guy getting driven back should try to use the hips to throw them back forward and get back to work from there. Sometimes it would require getting the "bottom" guy's hands busy so they start moving, but it was helpful as well. Kendall caught me in a weird armbar as I was moving away from him and I had to tap out of it in a hurry. He also was working in a pretty good choke and I eventually tapped out of that before getting it sank in. After all that I was done. Kendall and the coach rolled for a while and Kendall was learning some good stuff. I sat and stretched for a bit and watched.

As an instructor, with students paying for their time with the school, I feel I should offer as much to their training as I possibly can. I don't feel like spending the first 5 or 10 minutes of class sitting quietly and meditating is the most efficient use of that time. I'd much rather get them started on the physical training. If students would want to show up early to meditate for a few minutes before class, I would encourage that.

I didn't get to see the end of that game, but it turned into a good one. The Ravens look really good.