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Old 04-16-2007, 12:32 PM   #29
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Re: funny grading moments

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Amanda Lindsay wrote: View Post
Sensei apparently commented to my Sensei that 'there was a lot of ki in that throw'
I'm not sure why, but this puts me in mind of a "testing" situation when I was teaching kids in Stockton. I was kind of an assistant instructor and the chief instructor was going through and evaluating the kids on randori in preparation for a promotion coming up.

One young lady was taking people down with, um, conviction. A considerable amount of conviction. I was about to tell her to ease up, when the other teacher jumped in with "You are not a wookie. Leave their arms in their sockets."

To this day I still call her The Wookie when I see her. Even her dad jumped on that one.

Wookies got ki. Who knew.

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