2022-12-07

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

I started working on some impact drills with my senior student last night. We’ve punched and kicked things before, but this time was just the two of us, and I wanted to work on developing some power and learning how to “lock in” at the end of a technique. We worked on oi-zuki, mae-geri keage and tatte mawashi tettsui uchi (the dropping hammer-fist from Heian Shodan). I held a kick shield and had her apply those three techniques over and over again - no count - I just had her keep going, experimenting with what worked and what didn’t when it came to maintaining stability while feeling like impact force was increasing. As expected, all the little things we’re taught to do actually did appear to increase impact force when we actually do them. (Who knew?)