New Technique Idea

Haha, tonight was a little frustrating. I had a great idea for an exercise I could do with the kids class tonight. The idea:

Have one student in the center of a circle of students. Each student in the circle would have punching mits on. Random students, at random times clap their mits together. The student in the center has to find that target and throw a series of punches.

As you can imagine, my idea didn't work out so well. It quickly became chaos with all the students in the circle constantly clapping their mits. I tried to get them to clap one at a time, yet still totally random. Yyeah, that lasted about five seconds.
Next I tried having the mit students wait until I said 'go', of course then EVERY student clapped their mits at once.
I will have to find a way to have a random student (one at a time) clap their mits, so that the student in the center has a reasonable chance to find who did it and punch their mits. Then eventually they could clap their mits and hold them up for a couple seconds then drop them to their sides. That would force the center student to work on reacting faster, etc.

I'll have to further ponder and develop this idea.

Lots of other stuff coming down the pipe, but I'll write about it in the future.