Monthly Archives: October 2021

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Open House at Feehan 2021

Eva at Feehan
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I am completely floored that Eva is one year away from High School. Today we visited my Alma Mater, Bishop Feehan High School. It was Open House and it was very eye opening. I graduated 30 years ago and so much has changed at the school. For instance the building that was once the place where we took religion classes which was dubbed “Little City of God” by the students is now the arts center. If Eva decides to go to Feehan I suspect that his will be her favorite place to spend time.

Watching the presentation was really interesting to me. I loved my time at Feehan, it was a fantastic school and I have always wanted my kids to go there too. However, if either decides to go to another school then that will be their decision.

Eva was very interested in some of the clubs that are offered at the school. We noticed many posters all around the school for so many different clubs. I also noticed that the school had an eSports program and that was very interesting to Andy. It was certainly something I wish was around when I was a kid. I do hope that we’ll be spending the next 8 years with Feehan.

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Warrior Weekend with Kathy Long at America’s Best Defense

with Kathy Long
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Today was Warrior Weekend at America’s Best Defense. This was a 6-hour training session with multiple breakout sessions for everyone. I started with a session with Kathy Long who is a champion kickboxer. She gave us a great session on boxing moves and kicking moves. It was about a two-hour session. It was really informative and fun.

We went from there to a session on third-party knife defense with Sensei Nordberg and Mr. Brochu. This was very useful to get some more work on knife defense as I prepare for my black belt test. This led into the next session with Sensei Sanders and Sensei Pan from Franklin. They did a session on gun defense from odd positions like sitting and from far behind.

Our last session was ground fighting with Mr. Jimmy. Lots of breakfalls and more. This one was a tough one to end on but it was very useful.

The day was an excellent one and I had a lot of fun even though I was wiped out from last nights black belt assessment. I know I’m really gonna feel it tomorrow.