Tonight was review for Saturday's exam. I think I have most of the techniques down. My de ashi barai needs work.

Tonight we worked on punching and kicking techniques; jabs, crosses, hooks, upper cuts and roundhouse kicks.

We then reviewed yellow belt techniques and inner wrist lock takedowns with all the yellow belt afterthrows.

The Juniors had their Orange belt grading. I helped Sensei Mariedke with the adult hold escapes.

For the rest of the class, I worked with Grant on Ground Defense: body shifting while on the ground, trying to touch the person's head, ankle-thigh variation using both feet as uke is walking in, and the three defenses against a kick to the head: block and roll up the leg taking uke down backwards, and the two versions of hooking tori's leg behind uke's knee (inside and outside leg), following with a figure 4 ankle lock or leg lock with tori's leg wedged in behind the knee.

After, we reviewed all yellow belt hold escapes, finishing with a neck twisting take-down.

Llyle and Trevor were at class tonight which gave Sensei Mariedke and I the perfect opportunity to run Trevor through his yellow belt exam. He did really well. We also went over breakfalls 1 through 11 which were done very well and introduced Trevor to the hip throw. I also helped Sensei Mariedke give a self protection seminar at her work. We covered the basics: open hand strikes to the head, shin kicks, and knee kicks.

Small class tonight compared to Monday. I worked with Trevor reviewing his requirements for his upcoming yellow belt exam. He did really well and did most of the techniques with minimal hesitation or brain stalls.

For the last 15-20 minutes of class we reviewed the valley throw and then Sensei Mariedke showed me two new afterthrow control.

1. Uke is in the usual position. Tori takes his right leg and steps over uke's arm so uke'as arm is between toris leg. Tori shoots his right foot back, under uke's head and hooks the foot over uke's left shoulder and into the armpit to secure the left side. Tori then leans back compressing uke's neck between the calf and the hamstring. Meanwhile, tori grabs uke's right wrist with his right hand and hooks his left arm under uke's forearm and grabs his right wrist (figure 4-type lock). Tori then scoops the wrist down and locks up both the wrist and shoulder.

2. Tori take his right leg and moves it around the outside of uke's arm, over the shoulder, and then back. This twists uke's arm and forces it to bend at the elbow. Tori brings his foot back beside uke's ribs so that when tori kneels on his right knee, the patella will apply pressure to the bicep nerve. If the foot is too close to the armpit, Tori will end up putting his shin on the bicep which will work, but the pain doesn't come on as quick.

Full house tonight! Kyle, Trevor, and Sensei Krista were present for the adults class. I ran them through skipping, medicine ball throwing and tossing, focus mitts (jab, cross, hook, upper cut), groin kicks, and shin kicks. By the time that was done the juniors class was over and I had Kyle and Sensei Krista work with Sensei Mariedke while I worked with Trevor to review techniques for his up-coming yellow belt exam. We worked through all of the yellow belt hold escapes: wrist grabs, bear hugs, double rear arm pin, 2 hands on throat arms bent as well as from the mount.

Overall a great class.

It was another small class. Trevor is going to be testing for his Yellow belt in April so we worked our way through all of the yellow belt requirements except the hold escapes for the first 75 minutes. Some techniques were new, some were refreshers, and others were just review and practice. The techniques were mostly stances, moving in the stances, striking, blocking, and kicking. Pressure points like the BPO, radial, lateral femoral and anterior femoral were also covered.

After Kyle and I worked together on some more advanced come-a-longs and sanguineous restraints and worked on trying variations and modifications of these techniques.