Yonsei Academy Pictures
Today’s class was taught by a Korean gent who also teaches at the Apgujeong academy. In this picture he’s the guy making the tripod.
The class was taught in Korean so I was sort of scratching my head and trying to follow along. But Dane helped me out by translating. Dane is passing guard here.
A lot of the blue belts were practicing leg locks and heel hooks. These moves are off limits for white belts at Shawn Williams’ academy so I don’t know any of this stuff. Brian is doing a heel hook on Dane here.
The instructor helped me out with my sit-out from the north-south bottom position. Then he got hungry and decided to open some cans.
It’s the monsoon season in Korea so it’s raining like a mother. During class the rain was pounding on the roof of the hangar where we work out and it was really loud. For some reason I can’t stay hydrated here. My pee is a really weird radioactive yellow color. That means you’re dehydrated.
Anyhoo, I’m going to try to take better pictures today.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
That’s pretty damn cool. If I ever get the chance to visit the motherland, I’ll be sure to check out that class. Btw, is it always no-gi, and how is the food?
July 12th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Hey Joon, yeah John Frankl’s crew is great. John teaches both gi and no gi.
And the food in Korea is awesome! I prefer the cheaper things like kim bab and chigae to the fancy food like bulgogi and kalbi. Beef in Korea tends to be a lot smaller and lower in quality than in America so eating kalbi in Korea is kind of a different experience. But the chigae and stuff like that is great!