I attended my 2nd Black Belt class of the week tonight. I'm no expert (obviously), but it seems to me that we have some good students in the cycle. My regular classes are held on Tuesday and Thursday nights, so some of the students in the Wednesday and Friday night Black Belt classes are new to me and I'm still learning their names, but from what I can tell so far, they're a good group and they're only going to get better.
After the Black Belt class, I went straight to the sparring class. My goal as far as sparring goes is to learn how to control my breathing better. Going too fast in the first couple of rounds is just asking for trouble by the time I get to seniors like Alli ("Jaqui Briggs") Oates and Trent Foster. I'll figure it out though.