When I was a young girl I loved movies that featured dancing. As soon as the credits rolled I always felt inspired to get up and dance. I'm sure those dance moves were probably pretty amusing to watch, but in my mind I was a prima ballerina or a pop star or even Ferris Bueller 'twisting and shouting' in a parade.
Ethan has been similarly inspired. However his inspiration has come from The Karate Kid and Kung Fu Panda. A couple of months ago Ethan asked if he could learn martial arts. David and I agreed and he now goes to weekly karate lessons. Here is Ethan in his gi...........
Ethan's teacher stresses that the karate techniques he teaches are about self-defence - evading, disabling and immobilising attacks - not being the attacker. I like that!
Ethan is having a fantastic time in his lessons. He did some match-ups a couple of weeks ago with children already in coloured belts. Ethan loved every minute of it.
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