Blog entries by SFC JeffJ

About a year ago if you asked me what my primary martial art was I would have unhesitatingly answered Kenpo Jutsu. Now I'm not so sure. Sure, all of my rank is in it, but when it comes down to it, it's just a piece of paper. So I started exploring what was around me. Took me a while to...
It's been a while since I posted and even longer since I updated this blog. But boy have I been busy training. In the advanced class I go to, we've been doing "Zombie" drills. Basically, a bunch of uke's come at you arms stretched out like zombies. Their goal is to grab you. Nage's goal is...
I got there about an hour early to chat with others and see what was for sale. Who knows? At the end I might want to buy something. Mr. Dillman proved to be a very gregarious and gracious host. He welcomed me and shook my hand, telling me I was too big to be there. The actual seminar got...
Over the weekend, I got the chance to roll with a very experienced grappler. Now this guy is more than a foot shorter than me and about seventy pounds lighter. You've probably already got that this made no difference. The one thing that saved me was the fact we were going for position instead...
Something interesting(read bad) happened in class tonight. We were doing an Uke Line, and a 16 year old girl was up. everything was going fine(she did a great major leg reap on me) till her dad attacked her. She countered his haymaker with a really pretty wrist lock, which she proceeded to...
Just got back in a bit ago from doing Heian Shodan in the rain a dozen or so times. I even got a chance to practice my ukemi skills when I slipped in some mud. Pretty soon I'll bee shooting out in the same. Training in adverse conditions in not only good for the soul, it's good training...
As of late, I've started cross training in Shotokan. Great stuff, 'specially since my instructor has added a lot of Goju into it. The problem is I know a handful of TKD forms which are very similar. So when I practice them I'll sometimes get confused and start doing stuff out of the TKD...
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