It's been great working out in the new dojo. Shihan Hartzog has increased the hours of operation from Monday - Thursday from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. We've also had a shodan from venzuela join our dojo. His name is Sempai Phillipe and he trained under Shihan in Venezuela whose name escapes me at the moment. It is interesting to hear about the different philosphies from different factions that act under the same banner kyokushin.

I worked out with Sempai the other evening. One difference I noticed while working out is that he likes the numbers 20 and 50 a lot. 20 repetitions of Mae Geri per leg. 50 repetitions of punching. 20 repetitions of mawashi geri per leg. etc etc. Training with Sempai has opened my eyes to some new things and makes me realize that I have a lot more to learn.

I'm lucky to have two experienced kyokushin practioners to learn from. Our classes are very small (just us 3) so i'm fortunate enough to be able to build a relationship with both of them before classes start to get larger.

Shihan mentioned testing for 6th kyu soon, so hopefully that will happen sometime soon! I'm excited.

I'll post pictures up of me, shihan hartzog, and sempai phillipe later.