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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 4 March 2011, including four new rank-promotions. One cannot expect, in any real tests on the street, that attackers will be wearing gis (uniforms).   To that end, we periodically have “no gi” classes. If you can’t use an attacker’s gi to drag him to the ground, you can use his ears, his hair, his neck...

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