kempo heats

So I bowed the kids line up and bowed them in. As they were mediating had them repeat that they would go to the bathroom before class. Then I setup some stacked mats and had them run eight laps quietly as possible. That was to help them to learn to be more quite before the next class.

So Jim D. ran them trough some cardio stuff, then we broke into groups. I worked with the lower blue belts. First I had them work on one pinion. One thing I had them do is hold pieces of belts while they were doing the form. Then I had each one do a kempo and the rest of the group would do that kempo. Then we went into a circle of fire with kempos. Then I reversed it so the person in the center would attack instead of defend.

Then for the last part of the time one of the blackbelts got done with the person she was working with so she played the attacker. I put up a mat and she was behind the mat. Then she would do various attacks; sideclubs, overheads, knives, kempos, etc.

For the last part of class we played frisbees. The kids played some games amongst themselves. Then it was the blue/green-brown belt class against the green-brown/blackbelts.

So the next class I warmed the class up with the same thing I did before, but this time instead of dots I put rubber and wood knives on the ground. My purpose was to see how many people would step on the knives. Also, I asked a brown belt how many laps it had been.

Then Devin S. had each person do a 15 second stretch. After that we did as many heats as possible. I got 19. Usually I can get atleast ten more of that. Then we did heats of kempos. We did each animal about two turns then the person would rotate out.