No adults tonight. Worked with the juniors to review their techniques for their orange belt test in late November. after class Sensei Mariedke and reviewed some advanced throws and went over some possible changes to the junior's curriculum and moved some techniques around.

Reviewed bear hugs and nelsons with Trevor. Worked on various take-downs, hip and body drop throws, as well as various after throws. Did some skipping and a quick round of overhead throws, power punching, and shadow boxing at the end of class.

Another small class tonight.

Helped Sensei Mariedke out with the juniors again doing adult defense. Then worked wrist grabs from behind (1 hand on each wrist near and far) and worked on 2 variations. reviewed hip and body drop throws as well as afterthrow controls. Classes have been pretty small lately. Things should hopefully pick up in the fall.

After breakfalls, i ran through punch evasion with Trevor. we worked the catch block, parrying, high forearm blocks, and bobbing the head. I then worked these into some slow focus mitt work where Trevor would throw a few punches and then have to evade a job/cross/hook from me and then counter punch.

After that, we worked on yellow and orange hold escapes with hip and body drop throws and assorted after-throw controls.

I finished the class with a baton come-a-long: same body position as the finger come-a-long, but the baton is between uke's left arm and their ribs and in your right armpit. your right arm goes under the baton and scoops uke's right forearm and wraps it under the baton while you grab the end of the baton with your right hand. When properly applied, the baton will pass over uke's radial nerve and, depending on uke's arm size, possibly over the ulnar nerve.

We first started off reviewing kicks: shin, knee, and roundhouse. I then went over some combinations with Trevor: jab, cross, roundhouse. jab, cross, knee. i wanted him to go thru the punching and kicking together *slowly* to start to develop some coordination between the brain, hands, and feet.

After we worked on hip and body drop throws with afterthrows from any rear attack. we reviewed all of the afterthrows at yellow and orange and I showed him a counter to the supine arm bar (turn your arm so the thumb is pointing as if you were hitchhiking. if needed, use your free arm to push tori's leg that is closest to your waist away to gain some space. then, twist your body 180 degrees so your feet are where your head was. from here, you escape from the arm bar and end up in tori's guard.)

We finished off the class with some prone and supine figure-4 type leg locks.