2025-02-10

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

We’re having a bit of trouble with distance, so I’ve come up with a new analogy that I’ll probably expand in a full blog post but here’s a bite-sized version: I tell the students to think about getting ketchup out of the fridge. Importantly, they can’t reach the ketchup if their hand never goes inside the fridge. Punching is the same way. If they stop their punch short of the target, they’ll never really hit the target. The target is the fridge, and the ketchup is inside, so you need to be at the right distance to reach inside the fridge if you ever want to get the ketchup. It sounds like a silly analogy, but everyone, young and old, understood. The analogy also works for foot position but that’s a story for another day.