teaching beginners

Managed to get to Honbu Dojo a few days ago and helped teach. Place was PACKED, and all beginners (even the instructors I hardly knew...man I must be OLD), plus another six people observing class.
Fun to teach total beginners again after not having trained nor taught for a while. They simply don't know anything so do EXACTLY what I say, to the point of being ridiculous. Which is good because it really helps me understand how others may think about how they are using their own bodies, and how the words I say and the things I show get interpreted so differently than what I intended to be teaching.
Good class, and it's nice to be a beginner myself again!

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