“I’m not dead yet …”

In the course of describing events at October’s ISKF National Karate Tourney in San Francisco, Sensei mentioned that there were competitions in both katas and, for those over forty-four, katas at the “senior  level.”

Another yellow belt in my class — who has a daughter only a few years younger than Katherine — exchanged looks with me.  “I’m not old enough,” she said, echoing my own thoughts, “to be in a senior competition.”