One of those days

Last night was one of those classes where it was hard to stay on the same page as Sensei.
Testing is right around the corner, so it's pretty important to get everyone moving towards doing technique the way T. Shihan wants it.
Ever since receiving my unofficial job to help students at our dojo stay on track, it's been hard, especially when Sensei gets going o his own track — which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just not in line with the overall view of our school's technique as it's passed on from Japan.

With every single technique that Sensei showed last night, I knew that someone from the U.S. home dojo, or from Japan, would say something like, "Where did you learn that?" They probably wouldn't say it as nicely, though.
The old rule of thumb is that whoever is teaching, that's the correct way of doing the technique, & that's fine insofar as the idea that everyone does things a little differently, & each person's technique evolves to suit their bodies over time. So I was very good, & didn't say anything, though I did point out to a few senior students getting near the black belt level that this or that pinning combo wouldn't be good to do on the test.
It drives me crazy, though, because I remember all of the habits I had to break after T. Shihan was hear a number of years ago, & went off on how we were maintaining the techniques as they were handed down.
And after training with him, I had much more respect for that viewpoint, & for the way he expressed technique.

I'm teaching the weekend classes, though, & that's (partially) the time to stress the traditional aspects of what we do in training.