2025-12-10

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

I introduced another new drill tonight, this time for sparring. It goes like this:

• Phase 1: Standard three-time attack drill w/ oi-zuki jodan & chudan and mae geri chudan.
• Phase 2: Same, but after the defender counterattacks, the attacker blocks the counter and counter-counterattacks.
• Phase 3: Same, but now the defender can counter at any time - he doesn’t have to wait until after the 3rd attack.

We were out of time at that point, but the next phase would be to allow the attacker to make any three attacks, instead of three of the same thing in a row. All of this is building towards free-sparring.