2024-01-08

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

I had another new student in the youth and family class tonight, and I think he’ll be back, but otherwise the first class was largely uneventful. The adult class was a bit different though. My “adult” class is technically ages 13 and up, but none of the younger “adults” came to class, so we were able to go a bit harder, and with a bit more montotony, than we can if we have younger students in the class. A recurring issue with this group has been getting the hips to turn all the way forward and all the way back. We tried the standard “in place, age-uke/gyaku-zuki” drill, but that wasn’t getting it done, so we improvised. We used some freeweight bars, held them behind our backs, and used those to guage the position of our upper torso. (i.e. Using a bar made it easier to see the angle of our hips.) This really did the trick.