Day 3 - The Makeup Lesson

Still have that paper to work on, so, much like Saturday's lesson, this is going to be pretty short.

Since I missed class on Monday because of a meeting, I showed up on Saturday for a makeup lesson. I showed up early (just looking for a reason not to work on this paper) and watched the advanced students sparring until class started. After his practice and before mine, I talked to one of the Ninja Instructors at Ninja Academy and found out exactly what sort of training he and his peers have to go through in order to be employees at Ninja Master's Academy. He told me that they go through a full day a week of instruction and training on how to be effective Ninja Instructors. Now, this is on top of the daily lessons they teach and are taught during the week. It actually caught me off guard because I just assumed that to teach at Ninja Master's school, you had to be a black belt. Or maybe red belt (I'm still trying to figure the order of ranks). Not gonna lie -- I was pretty impressed.

Class itself was pretty uneventful. Learned about the Mount and the Guard position and how to end a fight with a couple basic submissions. We had a different Ninja Instructor teaching this class than I have had for my other two lessons, but his teaching technique was the same (See: previous paragraph about Ninja Instructor instruction). My partner, while friendly enough, was a bit of a Ninja Know-it-all. To be honest, Ninja Know-it-all reminded me of many of the people I go to school with. You know the type... despite having the exact same qualifications and experiences seems to always know that he's right and you're wrong.

A few hours after class, some of my Non-Ninja Buddies and I went to a local eatery and drinkery to get some good seats for the UFC fight later that night. The fights themselves were pretty disappointing, save for a couple of the lightweight matches. I did get to see Renzo Gracie (a member of the Gracie family who invented Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) fight Matt Hughes. Judging from cheers from the crowd at the eatery, Hughes was a local favorite. And he proved to be the better fighter as I lost the $4 wager (it was all the cash I had on me) to one of my friends.

Alright, time to get back to the paper... More Ninja Lessons tomorrow. And I think I have a leadership discussion coming up. I should probably figure out when that is...