2022-06-15

2022-06-15, Wednesday

Teaching my regular classes at the Ross Farnsworth - East Valley YMCA.

Tonight was a pretty straightforward night - kihon, followed by some sonbon kumite, and then kata. We really spent a lot of time on kata, though. This group seems to be getting the techniques, themselves, down fine, but having trouble with doing the right number of them, and turning in the right direction. To help with direction, I put a giant letter “I” on the floor using painter’s tape and explained how it resembles the embusen of Taikyoku Shodan. To help with count, I had them count each direction starting with “1” and explained that every direction has an even number of moves, and you only kiai on number 4. This worked nicely once I got them to do the counting for themselves, first out loud, but then to themselves.