Category Archives: Kids

I’ve never tried watching a really good movie after having watched an exceptionally bad movie but I imagine the sensation is much the same as going back to throwing punches at a single target after having just worked on attacking … Continue reading →

It’s easy to get stuck in a pattern.  You find some solutions that work pretty well and you stick with them.  The trouble is that when you’re dealing with the same people over and over, your solutions get stale because … Continue reading →

Today kids class was all about sparring combinations.  We threw punch combinations and kick combinations.  We mixed punches and kicks together.  We threw combinations with a focus on changing up targets.  We threw combinations with just the lead hand.  We … Continue reading →

One of the toughest struggles of martial arts can be finding good partners to work with.  Some partners hit too hard… some don’t hit hard enough.  Some go too fast… some don’t go fast enough.  Some care too much about … Continue reading →

Today in kid’s class, we practiced our lion dance beat and some striking combinations.  My hope was that by putting these two elements together in one class, the students would see that putting together two different rhythms (the drum beat … Continue reading →