2024-02-17

Subbing for ISKF Tempe at the Tempe Family YMCA.

I’m covering Tuesday and Saturday classes for Sensei Dave Bracklow while he’s on a well-deserved vacation. I often have trouble getting going in the morning, so I gave the class the “gift” of a good cardio warmup. We moved on to a pretty standard set of kihon before moving on to a bit of yakusoku kumite. Then we wrapped up class with some applications from Taikyoku Shodan and Heian Shodan. It’d been a while since I’ve worked with these students, so we went back over the “basic” wrist-grab escapes from both katas.