This Saturday our school had a double clinic. Trying to ignore the fact that we'd be an awesome covid spreading event (we were all masked and I think all of us are up to boosted at this point) we gathered nice and early at the school. There was about twenty of us, and I think, a great cross-section of the school. The place has fifty active members at any given time.
The first clinic was one of our current black belts getting her JKN (Jo Kyo - instructors tag) before moving. It was all about putting more hips into everything we do. I was trying to pay attention to this because I'm about a 75% person. Everyone can tell the second that I forget to do it. The crudy video clip below will show you when I do it right.
This dovetailed with the second clinic on breaking. I was super stoked to be part of this because I don't have a lot of experience. After a half hour introduction about the math behind a good break (F=M*A) we got going. Organizing that was a challenge. Advance students went to the front so they could go first and then were to hold the boards for the gup ranks. It was me and guy, who I think was twelve, in the front. He's already knee deep working on he's second degree, so he got to go first. We were just doing open hand chops and it just wasn't going his way. We grabbed a different piece, and he did fine.
It was my turn next, and it was the same thing. Twice and no cigar. Andy came over and held it thinking it might be my partner causing the issue and blamo, it worked out great.
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