MIXED+MARTIAL+ARTS


 * Group Name: Mixed Martial Arts **


 * Adult Leader/s ** : E.T. and Nancy


 * Student Participants: **

1. Carlos Hazoury : abs on Monday.

2. Gustavo Gamarra:

3. Christopher Novella:

4. Prince Okyere: abs on Monday.

5. Peter Carrion:

6. Ariel Yancovich:

7. Ben Gargan:

8. Steven Szwejkowski:

9. Jose Marte: abs on Mon.

10. Mark Rodriguez:

11. Tenzin Phelgye:

12. Brennan Rogan:

13. Driss Ayadi:

14. Sakib Ahmed:


 * Goals/Objectives: Students will learn the characteristics of different types of martial arts with the focus on judo. By the end of the week, students will be able to do some judo-related warm-up exercises, some basic moves, some practical self-defense technique, and most importantly, to fall the correct ways. **


 * Timeline: **


 * Monday: Exploring the characteristics and the difference of the following martial arts: Muay Thai/ Boxing, Taekwando, Kung Fu, Muay Boran, Jiujitsu, Judo, Sambo, Pencasilat, Taichi, and Karate. Students will go to Five Points Academy in Chinatown Manhattan. **


 * Tuesday: Group discussion and warm-up exercises in the morning. Going to Five Points Academy in the afternoon. **


 * Wednesday: Judo lesson in the morning. Lunch together in Chinatown.**


 * Thursday: Judo lesson in the morning. Lunch together in Chinatown (Pending).**


 * Friday: Warm-up exercises, reflections, and preparations for the afternoon presentation.**


 * Blogs ** : This week has been a real experience! Each day we learned a piece of real judo. Tenzin: this week was definitely entertaining. And we were learning. Driss: It was fun, not boring and taught us how to defend ourselves. Today was particularly fun because we got to fight our partners in a tournament. Brennan: The black belt demonstration was astonishing. Jose and Gustavo: We felt like we now have some skills to defend ourselves.

Nancy: We discussed earlier about the outline of the martial arts presentation--great ideas! We will be going out to breakfast Friday am and then put the presentation together for the rest of the morning. Oh, yesterday ET took us to a friend's restaurant in Chinatown where we ate and ate and ate.

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