2022-11-30

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

Tonight we started learning how to shift off-line during yakusoku kumite. Last week, having learned all five of the “basic” blocks, we started using all but shuto-uke in sanbon kumite. I’d mentioned that shuto-uke is a bit easier to use during ippon kumite since it generally requires shifting offline, and thus getting back into position for any repetitions after the first. Tonight we spent time on the very beginnings of tai sabaki … a bit of backward-diagonal yori-ashi.