2022-08-15

2022-08-15, Monday

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

We’ve added another new student to the youth class! Let’s hope they keep rolling in! In today’s youth class we began with in-place kihon in front of the mirror and then went directly into kata. Both of the newcomers are coming along nicely and the young lady preparing to grade is increasing her speed and confidence, as expected (and requested). I’m looking forward to her grading on Wednesday and I think she is too.

In other news, it’s getting closer to the start of the fall semester at Mesa Community College, and activity is ramping up. I can see that I’ve already got one student registered for the karate class I’ll be teaching, and the class is loaded into their online class resource system, so I’ll be loading content as time allows. There will be a lot more “rigor” around teaching karate as a for-credit class, but I’m looking forward to it.