Kaze Uta Budo Kai Forum Archive

Jason Reeves, tori
Kaizen Dojo
Arlington, TX

Kyle Sloan, uke
Windsong Dojo
OKC, OK

Jason had worked with his teachers James & Shelby Bedwell on the material. He and I ran through things as a warm-up twice.

I got to watch it live and ive watched it several times since then and i think that its one of the best nidan demos ive seen. Especially, w/ an uke that you had very little time to prepare with. It was exceptionally smooth and the timing was great.

Thanks Kyle for stepping in for the uke... awesome job and it saved me some punishment on my back!!!! 😄

Thanks again Kyle for being my Uke. You definitely gave me some great insight to several of the techniques and I really appreciate you volunteering to take the brunt of the punishment. I speak for myself and my wife Shannon in saying that be both had a great time. It was unfortunate that the weather was so against anyone doing anything away from their homes. Hopefully, next time the weather will play nice.

My pleasure! I'm glad I was able to share a little of my insight on techniques with you (and more importantly, without confusing you on demo day!). Falls like those aren't really punishing on a sprung floor like ours, and when you're being thrown cleanly without extra energy being applied. Very nice work. Keep doing what you're doing!