2024-10-28

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

Tonight was a good class. We hit kihon pretty hard for the first 45 minutes and then moved on to kata. We worked a lot on Heian Nidan and Heian Yondan applications tonight, basically working through the same things I taught back home on October 21 (below). Students asked some really good “What if they do this?” kinds of questions, which I answered by going a step deeper into the application than I’d originally planned. We talked a bit about pain-resistant opponents vs. having some “non-lethal” tools in our belt. It’s all well and good to be able to put an attacker down, but it’s nice to have a way to deal with the “harmless drunk” that you may not want to hospitalize in the process.

In other news, I’m heading back to Illinois for an unplanned week-long trip. Updates here may be sparse during that time, but all of my classes will continue as usual with guest instructors.