We were a little concerned when 6:40 pm rolled around and the only people at the dojo were three black belts and half a dozen white and yellow belts. A few scraggling brown belts drifted in eventually, and Sensei Brewer arrived right as we were getting ready to put our heads together to formulate a […]

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Today was a small crowd, just me, Dad, and Rush-san. We went through the Shodan test for Rush-san’s sake and I ran him through some extra Heian katas just to get him used to thinking on his feet. We went through the Shodan jyu-ippon sparring before calling it a day. I got a good sweat […]

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Tonight and I had the esteemed pleasure of teaching the Kickapoo club. Erbe-san showed up to help, and Cathy was there to assist also. Checking homework went pretty well, however it seems that “KIAI” was omitted from the word search so we gave them credit if they got everything else. The majority of the students […]

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Tonight got an unexpected chance to test-drive our lesson plan for Kickapoo with the white and yellow belts. We had shown Sensei Brewer our lesson plan, and he settled on the Fighting Spirit and Kiai handout that we had put together. He asked if we would test-drive it with the white and yellow belts because […]

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We usually have family dinner at my parents house on Sunday afternoons, and often I end up leaving with a few boxes of my old stuff. This week, my Mom had found a box with some old clothes and my old baseball card collection. I was a baseball nut for much of my young life, […]

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Last Thursday, and I made the trek to scope out the Kickapoo club so that we knew the lay of the land before we had to teach this week. I have to say, I was incredibly imporessed at the level of attention that these kids were giving… oftentimes with children of that age you get […]

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