Today, we went down to the beach for our usual Yoga & Tai Chi/Karate routine. However, as Pa and Luke were doing Tai Chi and I was doing Karate Katas, a guy came up behind me and did Katas too. Nothing wrong with that. After we jumped in the ocean, I went back up and watched him finish his kata. After he finished, he asked me where I trained. I said where I trained. Right after that, he corrected my stance, saying that he liked my katas but my front foot wasn’t lined up with my back heel (in back stance). That was true. Doing Karate on the beach is a little unstable so I had to make some modifications. After some chit-chat, we said goodbye and parted. Pa noted how he almost immedietaly corrected me without any pause (though he said he just got his black belt so he probably had some extra ego to go around) and that if the roles were reversed, we (Luke and I) probably wouldn’t have done the same. Rather, we would’ve held our peace. (even if we felt like something was wrong with the stance)

Damn, I’m mature!