2023-07-17

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

One of the students in the youth class was not having a good day today. He clearly didn’t want to be there, but his mother made him join class. (Good for her.) Fortunately, I can out-frown anyone, so I spent most of the class reminding him that “there’s no smiling in karate”, … which made him smile every time. By the end of class he was all smiles, and you may not think that’s what karate is all about, but isn’t it really about improving people’s lives?