2023-07-05

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

The students are returning! Two students, gone for a month-long vacation, returned to the youth class today. They hadn’t been here since our last kyu grading, not even to get their results, so we went took care of that first. As a reminder, I give every student a personalized, written, feedback sheet explaining what they did well and what they could do to improve, and I go over it with each student in front of the whole class. That way every student knows my expecations and everyone knows where they need to be focussing their attention.

The adult class still only had one student, the same one as Monday, so we continued our deep-dive into Heian Nidan. She can now get all the way through it, with a count, but still stumbles a bit when doing it without a count. That’s totally normal at this level, and will work itself out with repetition.

In other news, I’ve scheduled our next kyu grading for August 30 and updated the calendar accordingly.