A Coup

For the next few months we all met on sundays for open mat. It usually consisted of a few different people from our class and others, including Donny. This continues to this day.

It was becoming clear that Sean was getting tired of the drive from Jacksonville to fernandina just to teach four people. At the beginning of February he sold the mats and Donny took over as our instructor. We were all really upset about the possibility of not seeing Ron again but excited about the opportunities belonging to real academy.

Donny runs his classes a little differently than we were used to. We always start with a warm up. That is something we rarely did except when we would all meet early and steve would lead it.

The warm up usually lasts about 20 min and includes joggin, pushups, various ab stuff, etc. I will be the first to admit that these are rough. I'm not the most fit person and I'm sure these will change that. As much as we complain about these the truth is we need them and we're grateful to donny for making us do them.

We also have to opportunity to train under Daniel Moraes. This guy is awesome. When you're near him you can feel his greatness but he is extremely humble. I cant say enough good things about Daniel. He's an awesome guy and an amazing instructor. Everyone get's excited when Daniel comes to teach class.

I almost forgot to mention the others in our class right now. Currently we have Me(White), Ashley(White), Corey(White), Peter(White), Donny(Purple), Nate(White) ( who returned from a knee injury at one of our open mat days), Tonja(Purple), Steve(Purple), Scott(White), and Tony(Blue). Gary(White) shows up from time to time as does Katie(White), Corey's daughter.