Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Good morning crew,

I have discovered a persistent difficulty with teaching little kids taekwondo. The height difference. This is particularly evident during sparring training.

Frequently the little kids will spar each other, but occasionally they must spar with the black belts for the sake of instruction, and that's when, I guess you could say, 'miscalculations' happen.

The last time I was in sparring class I was working with an eight or nine-year-old and being as careful and as gentle as I possibly could. But it is just hard for me to kick that low! While trying to demonstrate the tactical advantage of reverse kicks I accidentally...and let me stress accidentally...kicked him right in the throat.

The poor little guy dropped like a sack of potatoes.

Fortunately, like I mentioned, I was being as gentle as possible, so after a minute or two of crying he was back up and at it.

But the disadvantage goes both ways. Ten minutes later, while sparring another little kid, I took a roundhouse kick right to the [CENSORED]. And he had no reservations about kicking as hard as he could.

The little [REDACTED] even had the nerve to laugh at me.

You know, oddly enough, that's sort of how I met my wife.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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