First keiko

Had the guys fight each other for the first time yesterday. Well actually it was the second time; about 8 months ago I did the experiment but it failed miserably as they were just not prepared and their basics were still so poor. Yesterday however I was quite pleased with the result. Granted, it was only 2 brothers (K & Jr.) but it was very intense and surprisingly straight. Jr surprised K with a couple of good shots and great zanshin. K was nervous in that first match. He whooped Jr's behind in a rematch that lasted less than a minute. Both were very straight and showed a lot of kiai. That's until they got really tired, about two minutes into it, haha! So the only criticism I got make was that they had to be able to keep it going for at least 5 minutes. Otherwise they kept it simple and I was very surprised to see some very nice Debana and Kaeshi. They'd only been practicing this for a couple of weeks so it's nice to see they're learning well and able to perform under stress. More of these kind of mini-shiai to come.