There wasn’t much going on this week. I went with my mom and stepdad to see the new movie, Cocaine Bear. Overall it was pretty funny and I enjoyed it. What made it even better was coming home to see actual bears ransacking the neighborhood trash cans. It is a set of 3 young bears that have been coming to …
Cooper Riegel – Week 14
This week has been excited and stressful. The stress was from midterms, I had 3 in total; Chemistry, Math, and History. Math was super easy, but I had to study a lot for the chemistry midterm. I’m confident I did well on both and am not too worried. Auburn also got snow this week, it didn’t last very long but …
Cooper Riegel – Week 13
The biggest part of this week was the sparring tournament at the dojo. It had been a while since I competed in sparring so I was a little nervous. In the end, I came in second in sparring. My division consisted of me, Lucas, Brody, and some brown belts from Bennati’s. I used a lot of my energy in my …
Cooper Riegel – Week 12
This week has been full of fun and excitement. I spent the three day weekend with my dad visiting family down in the central valley. While we were there I got some practice driving on busier streets and I have to say, flatland is a lot easier than the terrain in Auburn. We also did an escape room with my …
Lucas Grant: Week 32
This week I was able to go camping with one of my friends! I went for 5 days and it was a lot of fun. I may have gotten a lot of bug bites and my back might be red as a lobster, but those are just normal camping side effects. We were camping up in Trinity Lake in northern …
Lucas Grant: Week 31
We are now around half way through summer, and overall it has been really good. As of now I have done 34,000 pushups and situps, I have gone almost 700 miles, I have done over 600 acts of kindness, I have done 650 rounds of kata, I have done almost 600 rounds of sparring, I have read 2 books, and …
Lucas Grant: Week 30
This is a video from back in March when I went down to San Francisco to compete in a tournament. This is my first round, which happens to be against a person named Lucas. We also crossed paths at a tournament in Dixon. Even though the video is poor quality (it was the best I could do) I am in …
Isshinryu Lower Body Basics
Mike Oliver (5th-degree black-belt) at Zen Martial Arts in Sacramento teaches the 9 Isshinryu Lower-Body Basic kicks as they are practiced at his dojo. This is a reference video for his adult students.
Lucas Grant: Week 29
I recently finished my second book called “Zen in the Martial Arts’ ‘. This has quickly become one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. There was so much content I could take out of it. This book was about a man named Joe Hyams and his journey through the martial arts in his lifetime. This book goes in depth …
Lucas Grant: Week 28
This week I was able to go on a family trip down to Huntington Beach southern California to visit some family. It was super fun being able to reconnect with people I haven’t seen for months, be able to enjoy the beach, and enjoy that high 70 degree weather. It also gave me the opportunity to walk a ton. During …