Sensei thought he was going to be late and wanted me to start the class, but he showed a little bit early. I'd spent a couple of minutes practicing the bow-in and didn't realize my part was just Hajime mas. "Begin we will," in English.
Before class Mark gave me a "thank you for training with me" gift! He's a fine artist so I was fairly pleased but felt dorky since I don't have anything for him. My wife was happy because that's going to go up on a wall somewhere.
Since we had time we ended up practicing bo kata and then Pinan Godan or as much as we could recall.
Class started and I knew where it was going to go before we even bowed in. Time to teach the girls. Sigh. However, I was only given Niva and without her cousin it was like a breath of fresh air. She paid attention and didn't get distracted! I felt like a real teacher!
After about twenty minutes I was working on some self-defense with a group of four kids. That went fairly well, but spacing and timing went poorly. Again, it was pretty good considering the newness of the students.
A whole class of teaching! Who would have thought.
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