Thursday, July 8, 2010

Wednesday Class

No Monday class due to July 4th holiday. On the downside of this bronchial infection, coughing but feeling better. Used the new bronchial dialator from the doc but still had trouble breathing. Was told my triglycerides are 679, even with all the exercise and eating right was put back on chlosterol medicine. I find it strange he doesnt require fasting before a blood test. I have some natural alternatives in mind I want to try for this. I despise medications.

Class went very well, my friend Hanif went and I was able to introduce Fred Stone - a long time Uechi practitioneer to Bob. They hit it off really well. Class was alot of knife and ground work. I was really short on breath by the time we got to ground work. Trained with Joey, one of the Uechi blackbelts. We tipped the training knifes red, i was cut on the back of the arm and across the liver but I got a good thrust to his heart. I used a technique I've been working on with great success, Cesar picked up on it since the REAL training and has been using it. John Riddles seminar was canceled until the fall.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Mon and Tue Night Classes

My nephew Casey is staying with me for the week, always a pleasure to have him around and he has a keen interest in martial arts. Monday we had a captain from the Orange county sheriffs office teaching Gracie BJJ from a self defense perspective - great class - we plan on having him down at least once a month - we were invited to train with them at the sheriffs office on Saturdays. The guy is 43 and still competes......an inspiration to say the least.
Casey enjoyed it especially since he wrestles in high school, he took a couple of things away he thinks he can use.
Came down with a bronchial infection but went to Wed class anyway with Casey - I did better than i expected - i felt strong despite being under the weather. Canceling Sat. hiking meetup though. Looking forward to John Riddles seminar next weekend.

Went to my dr. yesterday, he was suprised i lost so much weight - a testiment to the UST training, picked up some expensive perscriptions for asthma, migrane, cholesterol and others. Wishing there were more natural alternatives.