It’s getting colder, the holidays are around the corner, and people kind of stop coming to their martial arts classes. It’s not a rule, but it’s certainly a trend. I was waiting for someone (anyone) to show up for a class, and 10 minutes after the scheduled start time, two people showed up. One was a student who had been coming for a couple of months, and he’d brought a friend. I gave them a private lesson, and they both seemed to enjoy it. The friend said she’d had a lot of