Thanks to everyone who came along to our first Zen Do Kai classes here in Gladstone for more than 9 years.  With no advertising we managed to get 4 people on Tuesday night and then 6 on Thursday with everyone giving positive feedback and talking about returning next week.

We covered some basic stand up skills this week looking at the engaged fighting stance and also the pre-fight stance before moving onto the 1-5 hand strikes and kicks.  We drilled these for technique first and then moved on to partner work developing a tool and target mentality from both engaged fighting and pre-fight stances.  They were a bit suprised to see the difference of what is useable in each situation - which is great.

Next week we move onto the clinch and will do a little bit of Kata as well.  I must admit to being very excited about the Zen Do Kai classes coming back as I can now offer an experience for student that they won't get in the combat sport classes we offer.

See you next week