2023-11-15

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

Tonight’s classes both worked quite a bit on sparring footwork, working towards smoothness. I don’t swim, but I expect if I did, I’d find that jerky movements don’t work nearly as well as smooth movements. Karate is no different. Getting to the point where the limbs move by themselves, only deviating from their normal course when necessary, is our goal. That’s not to say that we want to become complacent. Instead, it means that the “fundamentals” should become natural to us, allowing us to spend our attention on the more complicated movements.