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Ava Fleming: Twist

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Sa’diyya - Layered Omi on a Hip Twist

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Shirley Scott was known as the "Queen of the Organ", and the reason for that moniker is clear after listening to any one of her great records. This 1961 record, "Hip Twist", is one of my favorites.

She always enlisted her husband, Stanley Turrentine, to play tenor sax and they fed off each other musically with such beauty. I love the Soul-Jazz sound of the early 60s... and there were few doing it better than this duo.

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Taught two hours of Karate on Wednesday, and again today

Covering for my instructor is interesting. I've been at university, so have only been home on occasional weekends, and so I haven't actually trained on a Wednesday since January. As such, I'm not that in touch with how people are doing, what they're working on individually, etc. Nor was I expecting that many people to turn up to a Wednesday session-12 in the first hour (including brown belts) and 6 in the second hour. As the first  Wednesday session I've covered by myself before, it was exhausting, and I really have to thank Becca, Steve and Gill for helping out a lot. In particular, Becca for looking after Chloe, who was only on her second session there, Gill for keeping Robert and George on task (a challenge, but they were comparatively well behaved that session-really worked on their kata when we did it) and Steve for keeping the yellow stripes interested as best as he could, and helping the green stripes with their kata.

By the second hour, I was really struggling to verbalise what I was trying to say, and Gill largely took over teaching the two white belts while we went through combinations and kata as higher grades. One thing I particularly struggle with is teaching new or recently joined members at the same time as higher grades-it really helped to have the other brown belts there covering that for me. They were all in all good sessions, though, although I'd have liked to have had time to do some more original things with the kids, and maybe some pad work with the adults. I stuck to grading syllabus for the kids, as they do have a grading in about two weeks, and I'm glad I did as kata really needed working on for a couple of them. 

The Saturday session was a lot easier-probably because I'm more familiar with this crowd (although four come to both, there's a different dynamic on the Saturday-I think because it's in the morning, they're not as overtired after school. I know some of them are in their early teens, but they still get it-I do myself sometimes after uni xD), as well as there being only six plus Steve and I, and it not being my first session at the Lancaster club after 3 weeks in Leeds, like the Wednesday was. We got off to a later start due to problems with getting the keys for the Community Centre, and so they probably only had 50 minutes rather than the full hour (my instructor would overrun to make that up, but I only really dared go over by 10 minutes rather than the 20 needed-I knew at least three of them needed to dash off no later than quarter past, so I didn't want to push that). We did a warm up, basic combinations, then split off into pairs and did Kihon Ippon Kumite (as they're very likely to be tested on them on the grading). Here, little Katy was a star. If she sticks with karate, which it looks like she will, I fully expect her to be a black belt easily by the time she's 15, (I think cadets can only grade to junior black belt aged 14, I'm not sure) and to be competing nationally and internationally, if she wants to compete. She's naturally good at it, /and/ always striving to be better-she doesn't just let her natural ability carry her through, and is quite happy to do hundreds of repetitions of techniques she's already gotten down well enough for her belt and the one above, because she understands that she can always improve. It's really awesome training with her. But yes, that's enough of a ramble. After that, we had time for 10 minutes of kata, and they did well with that. That was all for the kids session-it went really quickly.

The adults session was just Steve and I-and so we did some pad work :) That was great fun, and I finally figured out what was missing in my gyakutsuki-hip twist. I can develop the sort of power that I should be able to when I put that in :) Steve's side kicks started looking a lot better too, and I realised that I actually can deliver quite a hard mawashigeri. I still struggle at sparring Steve, because he just comes at you no matter what you throw at him, even when you throw scoring and strong techniques at him, you can't make him stop or go backwards, unless you really hurt him. It's interesting, now he's got good enough control when sparring, but while I'm better at sparring attackers (attack them back), Steve is just a move forwards kind of guy xD

So yeah, an interesting couple of days. It's certainly given me a lot to think about in terms of instructing, and the possibility of setting up my own club in the future. I think I could do that. I'd work better from scratch than from picking up someone else's class, but I think there's an actual possibility there. It's still several years off in terms of my technique at a minimum, but I think I could get my head around the idea of instructing :)

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