2024-06-05

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

Both classes spent most of their time on kumite drills tonight, but in slightly different ways. The youth and family class worked on simple yakusoku sanbon kumite with jodan and chudan oi-zuki. It’d been a while since we’d gone over it, but every did really, really well. All that remains is just putting in the repetition required to know how sharply to cut the footwork angle on the final block to deal with partners of different sizes. In the adult class, we worked on a basic kizami-zuki/gyaku-zuki combination, moving forward with yori-ashi each time, while a partner moves backward with similiar footwork executing jodan nagashi-uke and gedan-barai.