2023-06-26

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

There was only one student in my youth class tonight, so we really dialed in on the things she needed to address, and made a lot of progress. There’s really no substitute for individual attention. We spent a lot of time correcting distance and yakusoku gohon kumite. Then we spent some time getting her front kick to be more “snappy.” As it happens, she was pausing between lifting her knee and starting to kick, so we just “smoothed out” that pause and we were good to go.

The adult class only had two students, but I worked them hard, going through lots of high-speed kihon before moving on to kumite. We practiced tai-sabaki for some time, moving forward, backward, and side to side with yori-ashi before adding the hands to the mix. Near the end of the class, we had one student moving forward with a kizami-zuki/gyaku-zuki combination, while the other moved back, blocking with nagashi-uke/gedan-barai.