Last night we took a pleasant left turn. Reed was able to get into a very elite training with Elisa Au Fonseca this last weekend. She's the third top sparring champ in the world if I understand correctly and is definitely shooting for the Olympics in a couple of years when they do the demo for Karate.
Reed was able to get an invite and picked up seven pages of sparring exercises. His normal follow up from that kind of thing is to immediately make everyone practice it so he can remember, but he locked himself down and followed the syllabus. He did use new warm-ups from the training which was a nice change.
As per usual, I got the four girls and had to work on Pinan Godan. I feel like I might have done something bad in a previous life and it's coming back to haunt me. The first few run-throughs went well, but then it descended into madness. Once the girls start giggling there is no coming back. They basically block me out and just do whatever. I have to keep trying to get them to focus, but I'm apparently easy to ignore, sigh. I constantly feel the trap. We are trying to get them to participate in a focused endeavor, but most of them clearly can't concentrate on the work for more than a few minutes.
Let's just put it this way. I can celebrate when we finish that section of the class and move on to sparring work. Unfortunately, we went to a new exercise which wasn't bad, but I would have liked something a bit more hard.
The exercise
Someone stands behind you and taps various limbs. You are basically a marionette and every limb that's touch strikes out. After we mess with that for a few minutes we place an opponent in front of us and try to fight remotely. It was interesting limiting and frustrating. Hopefully, we'll working on that a bit more in the future.
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