Last night was the first class in the last two weeks and Allison's first ever. For Johnny and Allison I kept things simple. We started out with some much needed junantaiso. After that I had Johnny demonstrate zenpo kaiten then promptly told Allison that what he did was our goal and that we probably wouldn't reach it tonight since her experience with this was nil. Therefore we started literally started from the ground and didn't get up. The same went for koho kaiten. Normally we would have spent more time of that but since Allison didn't have a gi and the grass and insects were taking their toll we left the ukemi at that and moved onto introductory kamae.
Naturally, ichimonji no kamae was the chosen kamae and we spent some time getting a general feeling and idea of what this posture is supposed to look like. I tried not to be too specific because you can't overload newbies but at the same time when you're new you don't do everything correctly so you have to pick certain things to correct and over time whittle away at it. We practiced standing in kamae, shifting forward and backward from left to right in place, and moving forward from left to right kamae.
To help reinforce the kamae we did a simple punching drill with the focus mits with the focus on the alignment of the body and using the legs to propel the fist. After that we switched back to taisabaki and did some zenpo and koho yoko aruki from ichimonji no kamae. We wrapped up the evening with chi no kata.
It was good to be training again and everyone had a good time.
Gambatte!
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