2022-09-28

2022-09-28, Wednesday

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

I lost two students this week, but for the best of reasons. These two students, a mother and child, were having trouble making it to class on time. Eventually they mentioned that they were driving all the way across town “because the Tempe YMCA doesn’t have karate.” But the Tempe YMCA does have a karate program. It hosts ISKF Tempe with Sensei David Bracklow, which I attend on Tuesdays and Saturdays to help keep up with my own training.

To make a long story short, we got the mother and child transferred to the Tempe YMCA. So they’re still training, and they’re still training in Shotokan, but they’re closer to home and better able to make it to class on time. Of course I told them they’re always welcome to visit my class. Do I want to lose students? Of course not, but this was easily the best solution for them, and that should always be an instructor’s first motivation.