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This is a true story of training with Sensei Claudio 30 years ago. It was the spring of 1975 and the place was “Hoteikan” Island!
Let me tell you a story about some of the training that I, along with a small group of students endured with Sensei Claudio. You will understand why I say endured once this tale unfolds.
Back in the spring of '75, there was a group of students that were close friends and lived in the Bronx, N.Y., close to Sensei’s house. That spring, Sensei wanted to offer us special training so Henry, Caz, Tito and myself decided to take him up on the offer. All he told us was that we needed to be ready at 6am, and that he would pick us up.
On that first day, after Sensei picked us up, we asked him where we were going. His answer was Hoteikan Island! So I asked him where is this island? His reply was Orchard Beach. We all looked at each other and said, Cool, a beach workout! Little did we know what was in store for us.
We arrived at the beach and all piled out of the car. It was still early spring so the Beach was not officially open. It was still quite cool in the morning. Sensei got out of his car and started looking around. He told us to find the biggest rocks that we could carry in each hand. This took us a few minutes and when we returned we each had a pair of rocks and a very curious look on our faces.
We had just started commenting about our rocks when all of a sudden Sensei takes off running and says, “Follow me”. Well here we were running down the beach with big rocks in our hands. Sensei headed to the shoreline and
Training with Grandmaster Reno Claudio
by Shihan Santiago Armstrong
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