2024-11-11

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

Today had light attendance, but it was Veteran’s Day, so it was to be expected. Since I teach at a YMCA, my policy is “if the building is open, class is on”, but some people have other plans on holidays - that’s cool.

In the youth class, we spent the entire hour on kata, again, and again, and again. We practiced what I call “Simon style”, after the old electronic game. We start the kata and, if anyone makes a mistake, everyone starts over. (They pretend they don’t like it, but they really do.)

In the adult class, we did what we normally do: kihon, kata, and kumite. Then, at the end of class, I gave a make-up exam to two students who couldn’t attend last month’s normal rank exam. As usual, results will be communicated later, but they both did quite well.