Well, I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to organize the first demo. Especially since I haven't even ever been involved with one. I think I might give my mom a call and see how many times she dropped me on my head as a child. As an orange belt it's really difficult to speak up and say what you think when surrounded by so many higher belts. I started off trying to appease everyone and realized very quickly that won't happen. I completely understand alot of the reasons behind not being able to make it to practices. Family, classes, work, sickness...all very good reasons. I personally know what it's like to not see much of a significant other and it sucks for me to have to watch people having to make the decision in either telling their spouse they can't spend the evening with them as planned or having to tell your I Ho Chaun team mates that you can't make practice. Either way, you're disappointing someone. So at first I tried to hold a spot for everyone. That didn't work out so well. After watching a group of 8-10 people consistently showing up, trying to practice without their partners...well, this didn't seem fair either.
So what do you do? For me it's tough, especially coming from where I am in the heiarchy. I had to make difficult decisions and pull people from areas that they wanted to be in simply so we have the potential to have something ready in case this demo is in a week.
I see myself doing this very differently in the future if I'm ever crazy enough to do it again.
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