Kyokushin, take 2

[annuin]

So tonight was the second kyokushin class. I think personally I did worse this time than I did last Wednesday at the first lesson. Bleh. I hate being a newbie, I hate not knowing the moves, I hate screwing up, it all makes me extremely self-conscious. And being more self-conscious doesn't really help, it just kind of makes you screw up more. I need to get PreZ to run through some of the punches with me, it's the ones that have both arms doing completely different things concurrently that really throw me off. And yes, I know it'll eventually come to me, and the senseis and sempais are all patient and stuff, so it's mostly me being hard on myself rather than anything exterior. Part of it is also a general lack of fitness too, you don't kick quite as high as you could when your legs feel like they're going to fall off if you do it one more time ;)

And I need to start doing things like push-ups at home, I have fuck-all upper body strength, especially the arms. Next class on Wednesday, so maybe tomorrow night I can get PreZ to go through some of the stuff with me in preperation, and read up on the counting stuff that some people helped me out on (thanks guys).

At this moment though, it's bedtime... I need to go pry the little plastic discs from my eyes, reinsert the industrial, and crawl into bed with my most-likely-already-asleep husband. And tomorrow morning I get to welcome back muscle ache no doubt ;)