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WHO: Tatsuo Kihara and OTA
WHERE: Utsuki Dojo, Tisse
WHEN: Various evenings throughout the week
WHAT: Tatsuo teaches the beginners adult classes on Tuesday/Thursday (7-8:30), and assists with the Self Defense class on Friday (7-9). He attends the advanced adult class himself on Monday nights (7-8:30) Take a class! Or chat with Tatsuo after class! Or maybe you're there to spar with him.
WARNINGS: Violence? But like, friendly violence. It's full-contact karate.

From the outside, the Utsuki Dojo is a rather plain looking building. A tan concrete one-story buidling. The doors open to a small lobby, with the locker rooms on the left and a long hallway leading to the training room itself straight ahead. On the right side of the hallway are offices and storage rooms, and on the left, about halfway down, are the doors to the training hall. The hall itself is about the size of a small gymnasium, with bamboo wood floors. One of the short walls is covered with mirror from floor to ceiling. If you keep going down the hallway, you'll pass the storage rooms where they keep the mats and equipment. And out the back door is a Japanese style garden, with several spots suitable for meditation.

A - Tuesday (or Thursday): Beginner Adult class
There are about two dozen people in the class, mostly teenagers 15+ and college aged. About a third of the class is middle-aged or older. It's about split evenly gender-wise. Tatsuo teaches this class. So even if you call him Tatsuo most of the time, in this setting he's Kihara-sensei. In this class you'll learn the basics. How to properly warm up your body. How to punch and kick. How to block those punches and kicks. And then how to link everything together in a kata. The last portion of class is either devoted to weapons (bo and tanbo) or sparring.

B - Friday: Self-Defense class
There are about a dozen people in the class. The majority are female, mostly high school and college aged, though there are a couple middle-aged women as well. But a third of the class are male, of varying age. Two are middle-aged and two are teenagers. Tatsuo leads the class through warm-up exercises, before instruction is taken over by Ogawa-sensei, a silver-haired woman in her seventies who comes up to Tatuo's shoulder. She might look like someone's grandma (and she is), but one grip from her iron hands assures most people she can administer a whupping if necessary. This class mostly consists of breakaway techniques in order to escape an aggressor.

C - Other! Are you here to have a friendly spar with Tatsuo after classes end? Are you also in the advanged adult class on Monday night? Or is it something else entirely?