Well, we survived visiting Sean and Robbie’s dojo — the UMAC center in Rancho Cucamonga, which practices Shorin-ryu style karate (second cousin to the Shotokan that we work in).
It was a smallish class, being a pick-up between Christmas and New Years — three black belts plus two other students plus Katherine and me. It was also heavily into sparring for prolonged periods (cue red-faced Dave huffing and puffing like mad, while my videographing brother chortled under his breath).
Katherine did quite well and had a lot of fun, and it was a pleasure both to practice with Sean and Robbie and to have a chance to meet Sensei Rick Duffy.
We dragged Jackie off to this event, as well as the earlier-in-the-day quick tour of the Pomona College campus, the first time we’d been back there in a couple of years. (I took advantage of the visit to nab a Juanita’s burrito).