2023-09-20

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

Last night in Tempe, I caught a green belt with the old “throw a mawashi-geri, then catch them with a yoko-geri kekomi when they charge forward to counter” trick last night. He ran right into it and he deflated like a baloon. (Fortunately, this wasn’t the Olympics or I’d have been disqualified. 🙄)

Anyway, it worked, so I decided to teach it to my adult class tonight. I don’t know what it is about this combination, but there’s something about throwing a roundhouse kick that seems to just scream “I’m done; come get me.” So we worked on it: Throw a roundhouse kick, let your knee track past the target just a touch as you recoil your kicking leg, and it’s already in a chambered position to throw a side thrust kick.