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Students of the Vancouver Institute of Self Defense, 22 April 2006
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Students of the Vancouver Institute of Self Defense, 13 May 2006
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Students of the Vancouver Institute of Self Defense, 2 September 2006, following the knife-fighting/knife-defense class (we are usually serious)
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Students of the Vancouver Institute of Self Defense, 19 January 2007
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Attack by Disinfectant Bottle! (part of “Taking the Line” training - Autumn tries mightily to take Jacob’s threatened attack seriously)
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Class on 22 February 2008.
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Class on 24 April 2009, with AJA Western Regional Director Tony Damigo (Third from left, back row), who provided a 2-hour Yawara (Kubotan) Seminar.
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Class on 30 April 2010, with 3 of 4 brown belts, and 3 of our 4 black belts present. Photo taken by Greg Catanese (visible in mirror between 3rd and 4th in back).    This is about half of our AJA-registered students.
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Class on 2 March 2012, including many new rank-promotions and one new baby... 

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Class on 2 March 2012, immediately after Charlie, one of our brown-belt assistant instructors, had taught a reality-check, real-life-attack situation lesson that we all named “Monkey Jujitsu”. 

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