To mix things up a bit, we’ve decided to add new specialized skills classes to our schedule. These classes will give students the opportunity to add some variety to their training, while learning specific topics in more detail. Originally we were thinking about making one of them a sparring skills class and the other ground grappling skills, but we’ve decided instead to leave the choice up to the students. We’re letting the students vote by telling us their order of preference for the following topics: sparring skills, ground grappling skills, joint manipulation or throws/takedowns. Whichever two are chosen, we’ll be teaching on Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15 for 2 months after which we’ll change the topics.

These classes are as much for us, the instructors, as it is for our students. It helps us to go into specific topics in more depth than we get to do in our day-to-day classes, helping us explore our martial art more deeply while also letting us practice skill-specific teaching. It’s also fun for us to teach from a slightly different angle than our usual classes. We’re both really looking forward to teaching these classes. (more…)

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