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| Blog Name: | Kyle's Blog: Martial Arts, Outdoors & Cooking |
| Url: | http://senseikyle.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | unknown |
| Topics: | Aikido, Judo, Jyodo |
| Description: | Blog of Kyle Sloan, student & instructor at Windsong Dojo in Oklahoma City |
| Popularity: | 7 Followers |
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Judo Randori -- Letting the subconscious drive
| Tuesday night, I had an absolutely delightful Judo randori session with Cameron Siemens. Now, any of my guys will tell you I rarely use ippon-seoi-nage. I'm a tall guy, it doesn't work well for me. Except Tuesday night, it was working well and doing it on its own without any thought on my part.Thursday night I had another randori session with Cameron, the last five minutes or so of which was caught on tape. Interestingly, I tried to throw ippon-seoi-nage (since I was having such great success Tuesday) and it wouldn't work at all! Instead, hiza-guruma was coming out of me for some reason.Over the past week, I've felt a few common errors with different players rel |
Wooden Weapon Maintenance
| I was reading on Kingfisher Woodworks site that they initially apply teak oil when they finish a weapon, and recommend oil for regular maintenance.I got tired of looking at my first bokken leaning in the corner of my office this afternoon. I used various grits of sandpaper to remove some of the splintering from the use & abuse it took during the first 10 years or so of its life. I applied a generous coat of teak oil ($12.50 a quart, which will probably last forever and then some). I also applied teak oil to another, heavier bokken that is only a couple of years old. |
Gettin' My Gumbo On
| I've been in the mood for gumbo... well, since the last batch I made a couple of weeks ago. One of the hallmarks of cajun cuisine is building layers of flavor. Today I experimented with a few changes to my gumbo game. For starters, I am using more meat this time. I am doing a chicken, sausage and shrimp gumbo. Total weight of meat is 3.5 pounds. So a little more trinity and roux is required. On the subject of the trinity, the produce available at Wal-Mart was simply atrocious. Most of the bell peppers should not have been available as they were starting to develop soft spots. I used two bell peppers and two poblano chili peppers. I also went with red onions |
More Videos In The Works
| I filmed a lot of material several months ago -- warmups, drills, ukemi. But I've kinda laid low since we were debating video formats, sizes, particulars of players that integrate into our forum software, forum permissions, ad nauseum.Well, today we cranked out a lot of material. Nick has some editing work when he returns from a weekend Jyodo workshop in Denton with Jack Bieler, head instructor of the Denton Aikido Club.Myself & Derek Hall (my first Judo padawan), with the help of Damon Kornele and Cameron Siemens, filmed a lot of material today. A total of 33 lessons on Judo, the majority of which concern grappling. The |
It's Finally Here!!!
| The Kaze Uta Budo Kai (Windsong Budo Association) video project has finally made it's way to the public!Over the past few months, the nature of the project has changed significantly. I've been frustrated about how things were not moving at all. And now, in just a few days, we have over 60 videos published here. There are probably another 200 or so in the queue to be uploaded right now. We're working on creating a monster repository of information the likes of which has never been done before in this arena.So, kudos to everyone involved!To Nick Lowry, the visionary with the planTo Dave Rose, Glenn Billings & Damon Kornele -- The Mac Guys. I must adm |
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