| OMG! It happened again tonight. The same student ran into my yoko geri & it was like 'de ja vue' all over again. We were doing 'light ' kumite. I did not kick hard. he was coming in & got hit right in the solar plexus. I did not feel as bad this time because we both knew he ran into it. This time I forced him to keep moving, as if in a real fight, & buy time till he caught his breath. I just kept yelling encouragement while continuing to throw kicks & punches at him. I told him to relax & your breath will come back but in the meantime move, use your foot-work to survive. He dropped for a few seconds this time. He sucked it up, got back up & started moving until he recovered. I was really proud of him. Wow! Sometimes the martial arts are so enthralling. What was really enthralling was that we had a really good, hard, work-out & I did not get injured tonight.
Thanks,
Tom | 
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