Mark and I had the pleasure of training yesterday for four hours (!) with Team Ryouko. This is a group of extreme martial art/acrobatic/breakdancers from Toronto. You can check them out on YouTube to see what they are all about - their backflips, flying kicks and weapon demos are amazing and extremely intimidating.
We went to Brockville to watch their seminar but decided once we got there to participate. Thank goodness that we did! We did four seminars with them: Acrobatics, Breakdancing, Trick Kicks and Bo Staff. Each one was awesome. These guys were able to completely break the moves down into (somewhat) easily learnable parts so that we could attempt everything.
Not only did we come away with some incredible routines and great tips for making our demos better, but we learned some great new strengthening exercises to incorporate into our classes.
At the end of the seminar Team Ryouko put on a demonstration for us that was fabulous! We are incredibly grateful to Val from Thousand Islands Martial Arts for bringing Team Ryouko to Brockville. We hope they come back again - this is a seminar that we would encourage everyone to go to and one that we will definitely not miss!
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