Photo courtesy of J. O'Donnell Sinclair Sensei and Wendy have been out of town all week for the women's seminar being held all this week in Seattle, WA, so we've been left in charge at the dojo. My buddy Aaron and I have been running the intermediate classes and Kuster Sensei has been taking our advanced class. The intermediates have been doing an awesome job and we've been laying out some refinements with distancing, footwork and sword work/final sword positions. I explained to them last night that when they think about and focus on certain parts they do really well with those parts and that we're going to be combining everything together so that they feet and swords and hands and everything start working simultaneously. There's a lot of promise there, and if they keep improving like they are right now they'll be joining our advanced class in no time! Kuster Sensei brought up a good point last night, and one that I tried to hang onto throughout th
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