In attendance: Bob Shin (instructing), Adam B., Joe C., David D., Maria H., Adam L., Derek L., Tom M., and Aaron T. We had an observer today: Jonathan H.We’re still working on the salutation. Strangely enough, the class seems to find the five step procedure incredibly challenging. Luckily the observer didn’t laugh or walk out of the room while we fumbled through the salute.We reviewed 3/9 left hand and I recommended that everyone practice the right and left hand templates together at home, whereupon everyone apparently decided that they wanted to practice the templates together in class.The second part of class was spent reviewing transition drill 1. Officially, we reviewed the first 5 isolations, though some of the class went on to try to review the entire drill.For the final 20 minutes or so, we practiced isolations 1, 2, 3 and 5 with footwork. Our goal should be to execute the isolations at almost running speed.We ended class with some light free flow. This class I realized that I’ve let discipline get somewhat lax recently. Starting in August, we’re going to tighten things up a bit. Consider yourselves warned!p.s. We were also reprimanded by the KM manager for leaving lots of wood chips on the mats after last week’s class. We decided that it was probably Tom’s “shedding stick” that was to blame. The “shedding stick” was disciplined after class as pictured above.
