Thursday, January 20, 2005

Better attendance today, with a couple of unexpected guys showed up. Talked about priorities, and trying to setup a dojo down south. I asked one of them who drives almost 2 hours each way to setup what's necessary (room, people, fees) to start a class down there once a week or so. Weekday evenings are out for me, too far, too late. But weekend mornings could work. We'll see.
Went through basics again today, to get them all on the same level. Did a lot of suburi, to the point where they were exhausted. Surprising considering they're all very athletic and consider themselves in great shape. Had to force them to think hard about proper technique and economy of movement. Next practice we'll crank up the level with more cardio (uchikomi geiko).

Also spent a good half hour doing kata ipponme. Finally, we did some uchikomi. Not much to report other than they progress well and attitude is good.