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Last night March 24th 2008. Sensei Kris Rosenthal, my Judo Instructor passed away while teaching Judo class. This is a great loss to not only his family and students, but to the entire martial arts community. Sensei Rosenthal was a good man, and a great instructor. He always pushed you do more then you thought you could. He will be missed a great deal.

UPDATE 25 March 2008:
The Asbury Park Press website has his obituary, and information regarding the funeral and viewing.
Kris Rosenthal’s Obituary

No, Im not dead, I just have not had a chance to post in a while. That does not mean that I have not been training though. In Judo I took two rank tests already. Nothing fancy, just Kazushi, Falling, stances, and Terms. In Shaolin I just started working on the two man version of Hua Chuan two. Its pretty cool, but since Sifu has not taught it to anyone in a while it can be kind of frustrating because he will show you something, then once you do it, he will look at it and say nope thats not it. Do it like this, and he will show you something completely different. Kind of annoying. However, he said once we get through it we will tape it, and that will be the gold standard for the form. So that other will not have to go through the same thing. So that is kind of cool. Also when I have this form under my belt, the only thing I will need to finish my Shaolin training is Dragon Phoenix. So it is pretty exciting to almost be finished with a system. Well I guess that is it for now.