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annuinAll sore. Mostly from the fact that we did karate on Tuesday and Wednesday. We generally never do concourrent nights, gives some recuperation time as well... plus Tuesday's class had kicking practise with pads, and the pads get awfully heavy when you have to hold them at shoulder height or higher for quite a while with someone bringing their leg down on it pretty hard. I'm sore not sleeping too well last night didn't help either though.
I have a nice new bruise on the top of my right underarm to add to the collection ;) It's kind of faint, but a nice pale purple shade.
Saturday's promotion test looms, and I'm somewhat nervous. We paid the money for the test today, so that's an additional $70 (each) incentive to do well. The weather looks like it'll be okay on Saturday... 22C and partly cloudy, so hopefully not too sweltering in the dojo.
Yesterday I also found out why Nancy, one of the other white belts is so surprisingly good. I knew she'd done karate before, but I didn't know she used to be a third dan blackbelt. Which means she'd outrank the senpais that usually teach us. She used to do a related style of kyokushin. There were some splits in the organisation, many dating back to 10 years ago when the founder of the style died and not everyone agreed with the successor. Politics in sports, fun stuff. Not my bag really, as long as the place I'm studying teaches well, I'm happy.
Saturday the 19th is the All American Open Tournament in NYC. PreZ and I are thinking of going to that. I'd love to go all day, but PreZ has skating in the morning, so we won't be able to leave here until noon or so, which still leaves us most of the day programme, and the finals, so all's well. If anyone wants to come too, let us know.
PreZ and I now have a kitty and a bird. Pet-sitting for Cherie while she's off road-tripping. Luckily Chestnut's generally not a handful, and Zen usually only gets excited when the taps are running within earshot, leading to much animated chirping.
Tomorrow a sport free day, though I guess I should finally try out one of those tapes and get some stretching going. Friday is yoga. Hopefully it won't leave me sore or tired for Saturday, last thing I need is for that day to be one where I don't feel 100%. Of course now I'll have issues sleeping the night before ;) I already had a weird dream this morning in which I was forgetting all the punches, blocks and kicks. Argh.
I have a nice new bruise on the top of my right underarm to add to the collection ;) It's kind of faint, but a nice pale purple shade.
Saturday's promotion test looms, and I'm somewhat nervous. We paid the money for the test today, so that's an additional $70 (each) incentive to do well. The weather looks like it'll be okay on Saturday... 22C and partly cloudy, so hopefully not too sweltering in the dojo.
Yesterday I also found out why Nancy, one of the other white belts is so surprisingly good. I knew she'd done karate before, but I didn't know she used to be a third dan blackbelt. Which means she'd outrank the senpais that usually teach us. She used to do a related style of kyokushin. There were some splits in the organisation, many dating back to 10 years ago when the founder of the style died and not everyone agreed with the successor. Politics in sports, fun stuff. Not my bag really, as long as the place I'm studying teaches well, I'm happy.
Saturday the 19th is the All American Open Tournament in NYC. PreZ and I are thinking of going to that. I'd love to go all day, but PreZ has skating in the morning, so we won't be able to leave here until noon or so, which still leaves us most of the day programme, and the finals, so all's well. If anyone wants to come too, let us know.
PreZ and I now have a kitty and a bird. Pet-sitting for Cherie while she's off road-tripping. Luckily Chestnut's generally not a handful, and Zen usually only gets excited when the taps are running within earshot, leading to much animated chirping.
Tomorrow a sport free day, though I guess I should finally try out one of those tapes and get some stretching going. Friday is yoga. Hopefully it won't leave me sore or tired for Saturday, last thing I need is for that day to be one where I don't feel 100%. Of course now I'll have issues sleeping the night before ;) I already had a weird dream this morning in which I was forgetting all the punches, blocks and kicks. Argh.
