Andrew Young, shihan did a mid-week Kukishinden Ryu seminar for us at the dojo. A bunch of things happened that made it a bit bumpy (Andrew's flight was postponed – we made the dojo in time for class, one of the guys lost his EXPENSIVE cell phones – someone found and returned it, my mom took ill – she's doing better now). It was good, very good. Monday night was taijutsu and Tuesday was jojutsu.

Let me tell you, it was hot! We were drinking water and sweating like crazy. And it was GOOD!

In addition, Andrew spent time helping us learn some “warm up” exercises that he recommended as well as presenting us with three short lectures on Kukishinden Ryu history and numerology. As a gift for the amazing amount of support that our dojo members showed for this event they were treated to a private class with Andrew. I want to THANK Andrew for taking the time to share his 17 years of in-Japan training insights with us as well as helping me learn some personal lessons. [PS I would like to thank several people from other dojo that helped support this event: Mike Figueroa, Chris Carbanaro, Orin Paliwoda, Chris Chen, & friends --- THANK YOU!]