Emanuels vist 1

           I  showed Emanuel my martial arts studio www.macomberkarate.com/ . The look on his face was great the moment he stepped inside. My studio doesn't look very fancy or well kept from the outside. The sign is missing a letter and it's all gray. But when you step in the entrance there's a mirror, rocks and trees right in front of the doors. It looks really zen. Then you step to the side and you see through the glass a room with bright red and blue padded floor and pictures on the walls. The big room has a mirror that covers the whole wall so it looks bigger than it is. You see all the kids running, jumping, and playing around. Then the sound hits like a wave. Shouts, yells and laughter all compete mixing into wild frenzy of noise.
         So to say the least he looked rather stunned. I went into class and Emanuel watched. Occasionally I'd look at him through the glass and he would be smiling, watching with interest. Afterward I introduced him to my Sensai who asked Emanuel what he thought. Emanuel said " It was very interesting. I would like to try it sometime."  We left and in the car decided to try the Habit burger grill. I'll write about that later.

                                                            

This is some training I do with a weapon called a Bo. At home I don't train with a real one. I use a palm frond that my brother cut the leaves off of.It works just as well. At my studio I get to use the real ones which are made of smooth hard wood and almost perfectly balanced. I wanted to show Emanuel what I do with it because he didn't see at the studio. Emanuel thought that it was cool I could spin the Bo so fast. The noise is really fun to listen to. It sounds like a bull roarer