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While I helped out with the high greenbelts in today's high belt class, I used what Master Shin talked about in his seminar at Instructor's Camp! I had them do Tae Keuk Sa Chang twice the normal way, and I could see boredom slowly forming. Then I had them stand on their knees, and they were very confused. They were concerned about how to kick and how to do their stances, but I just told them to figure it out. I did the poomsae on my knees alongside them, and although they fell over a lot they really enjoyed it. We still had a few minutes after that, so I asked someone to give me an animal. One of them said monkey, so every four steps in the poomsae, they had to pat their head and rub their belly. I came up with this because they said monkeys eat bananas and swing across trees, netiher of which we could really do in our dojang. While they laughed with each other and loudly enjoyed it, I also noticed they were understanding more aspects of the poomsae, and became better over the chunk of time I worked with them!