The New Orange Belts are Here!

On Wednesday night, we had a great class. One of the coolest things that happened was that I was privileged to award orange belts to Aaron, Trisha, April, Matt and Mitch. They have all been working hard and have pre-tested in class over the last several weeks. Trisha hasn't been able to join us in class as much as she'd like, but when she does come, she always shows up early to work on her material. Mitch is also there early working on material. That's what we like to see in class -- students taking the extra step. Matt is getting some really nice forward bows and Aaron is starting to bend his knees correctly. I had hoped to give Claudia and Mario each a stripe, but Mario was sick and Claudia fogot her belt and jacket! Ugh. We've been enjoying Kayla and Keylan as well, but they seem to be sick quite a bit. I hope they start feeling better. Congratulations to all of our newest orange belts! You're doing great work!

Last week, we had a visitor from another school, Albert, who is a fourth degree in Kenpo. He assisted me and Tara teaching the class and we were all most amused when he showed Mitch and Mario the importance of checking the opponent's arm in several techniques. (They ended up on their butts.) It was a lot of fun to have a visitor.

In the Little Dragons class that Mr. Cogal teaches, we had a young visitor,and hopefully a new student, Jadon, who joined them. He's Tara's son, is four years old, and he's adorable. He fit in well with the other two students and we hope to have him come back.