Here's your pepper spray...

Ya'll I am terrified.  We have our very first women's self defense seminar this weekend and I am scared to death.  Logically I know that it will be awesome, but that logic is just not translating to my gut.  The gut keeps doing summersaults anytime I think about it.  And as it is the day after tomorrow I am thinking about it a lot.  We have gotten a huge response for it, at last count we were close to 50 paid-for attendees.  That being said, we have no choice but to be great.  Because I go to church with these women.  I work for some of them, I call some of them friends.  

Ugh.

I taught a self defense class once upon a time, but it was pretty close to a disaster.  It was through the dojo where I trained, and was working for at the time.  We got a pretty poor response, about 6 women, and I wasn't told until the very last minute that I was actually teaching the thing.  And by last minute I mean after the women had been waiting to begin for about 10 minutes and I had tracked down our head instructor to tell him to get a move on only to be told, that no, you are teaching.  Get to it.  

It did not go real well.  

Don-e on the other hand as taught many of these, to great success.  Our studio was actually known in the town we are from for having 'hot' instructors.  Women ranging from 15 to 80 would sign up for our classes just for the chance to be handles a bit by them.  Don-e was one of them.  Needless to say he is not nervous.  The man is a natural born teacher so I suppose this would be no different for him.  But I am not sure that I won't be sick.  Hopefully just not while in the middle of it...