Finally got some advertising up on google's business listing

next up: world domination. :D

I circulated some more flyers on the weekend. Mariedke said that she had 3 phone calls last week asking about the club. I've got to find some other places to put up signs and start working on re-designing the web page.

Class was ok. All of the adults were sick and there were just three juniors. I worked with Jonathan and Michael on their orange belt techniques; double rear arm pin, 2 hands on throat (arms bent) and 1 hand on each wrist (held high). I also went over a new takedown for them, the crab takedown (aka takedown to the rear). We decided to teach them this instead of the ankle-thigh takedown. i finished up with some targeting practice; solar plexus and groin. For the solar plexus strikes, we used palm heel strikes and knee strikes (while pulling uke's head down) and for the groin kicks i brought out the small medicine balls and had them practice on them. They were thrilled to be able to use the medicine balls after seeing the adults use them :)

Renee and I worked on some brochures for the dojo this weekend. We made some fold-out flyers to put in the lobby of the leisure centre where we train, as well as some signs to put up to direct people thru the leisure center to the training area. I also put together a 8.5" x 11" poster to put up at grocery stores, libraries, community centers, schools, etc to get some more exposure.

After taking a break for vacation and birthdays, i'm back to my normal schedule. Tonight we did a 50 minute high stress warm up (woohoo!) followed by front scissor (full guard) escape and then some basic hold escapes using the yawara stick.

I also put some flyers up on the community bulletin boards at a few local grocery stores. I'll go around some more this week and put some more up in the area.