2024-08-12

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

Five new students! Incredible! The adult class finally had to make two lines to keep from running out of space. Two of them are brown belt “transplants” from another school, one is a youth from that same school, one is the mother of those three, and one is brand new to karate. I’m really impressed with the mom. At her children’s previous dojo, she’d only watched … never participated. But tonight she showed up in a new gi and got out on the floor. She even made it all the way through Heian Shodan and gave a good showing at Heian Nidan based only on having watched her children train before. Impressive!

Wednesday’s class will include a brief rank exam for several white belts, so we went over what they can expect on the test.