This morning I went with Andy tot eh annual Father’s Day Dads Hitting Pads class at America’s Best Defense. I love this event. It is a day where dads get to train alongside their kids. We did a combination of Krav Maga and Karate together and it was so fun.
There were so many dads and kids there that they split the group up and used both floors. Mr. Brochu split the group in half and said that one half would stay with Mr. Kyle and the other would join him on the other floor for the “pain train”. Andy got a huge kick out of that and now tells everyone that he was on the “pain train” side.
We started off warming up with some races of dads vs kids. Andy, in bare feet was faster than me, in socks. I didn’t have much traction to reverse direction and figured that I didn’t want to go flying into a wall or something like that. Then we had the kids do High Knees down the floor while the dads held their belts and gave them some resistance.
Then it was the dads turn. We put the kids belts around our waists and got into bear crawl position. Then we had to bear crawl down the mat while the kids tried to hold us back. I ended up dragging Andy along the floor. The way he describes it is that I was so fast that he thought his heels would set off sparks.
After the event we got to take home a new shirt and Mr. Kyle took our photo in the Dads Hitting Pds frame.
Andy has been very excited about this event even though he hasn’t been that excited about karate overall. He is looking forward to being able to start Jr. Krav, though.