2022-12-03

Subbing for ISKF Tempe at the Tempe Family YMCA.

Tonight we started working on Tekki Shodan and, although it’s way above these students’ “pay grade” (they’re all 9th kyu), they seemed to get along just fine. Granted, they don’t have the skills they need to really understand the kata (heck, I’m not sure I do), but there’s certainly no harm in having them be familiar with it so they can take advantage of opportunities to learn more if and when they come along. As expected, much of our time was spent harping on maintaing a good kiba-dachi while rotating the upper torso to execute techniques. Unexpectedly, they all did very, very well at learning the haiwan nagashi-uke/gedan-uke/ura-zuki combination, the “signature move” of sorts of all three Tekki kata.