I’m going to gloss over my weekend workout since the more exciting one happened tonight. Since I’m back in Pekin for a few days I decided to hit the Mapleton dojo tonight.
It only ended up being Oedewaldt-san and myself, so he decided to let me teach the first class. I went with one of our “combinations of the month” from Colorado, breaking it down into pieces so the lower ranks could follow along too. It went well, and everyone seemed to pick up something to work on… even the kids!
Second class we did a tour of black belt kata, working on Bassai Dai, Kanku Dai, and Jion. Everyone joined in on the fun and we doled out a few pointers so everyone could pick up a little something to work on as they explored these katas.
It was great to see everyone, including Dunham-san who stopped by just to see little ol’ me. I’m planning to hit Pekin tomorrow night… that’ll probably do it for my karate training this week since I have a pretty full schedule of seeing friends and family for the other two days that I am in town.
It felt great to be back at a familiar dojo!
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