Tuesday Teaching Night
Last time to take this class, its been seven years I think. My good friends Cole and Chris are going to take it over, they trained with the group to ease everyone in a bit. Smallish class only 30 or so because of the school holidays.
Warmup, then split the class into groups because there were so many helpers – Chris and Cole did mainly kata with the adults (gave them all a chance to get to know each other), Ben and Wayne took the higher grade kids through a range of fun stuff and I took the four white belts. Good class.
2nd Class – Still holding onto this one just for now.
Very hard warmup. Strength and fitness then some stamina stuff.
Then tried out the start of Ricks Oh Crap-Okay progression. I was very pleased with this. It all makes make sense – everyone understands the why, and it ties into all the stuff I’ve been doing with Marcus. Congruity, nice. There were two new yellow belts I’ve invited to the class, father and son – they guys basically did just as well as the more experienced ones. We’ll go further with it next week.
Sparring to finish to officially break in the newbies mitts and pads and a team kata demo from three of the younger lads – Seifa.
Quote was from something I got off the net a while back, no idea of the source now:
“Anger is the child of frustration and is the last resort of the ignorant. The best fighter is not angry”.