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So Saturday is the promotion test, which PreZ is taking, and which I'm not.
Physically I'm just not ready for it. Between the heat and humidity and the almost 3 week break we took during our vacation and the RNC and Labor day, I'm having a hard enough time just finishing the 1 hour All Students class, and haven't had the energy or breath to take the 1/2 hour Kata class after that. So a 2.5-3 hour promotion test is not looking appealing to me, especially as you don't get any breaks. As a lower belt you get to sit out a few things, because you're not required to know them at that level, but that's all the reprieve you get, and short at that... no water/bathroom breaks.
And so I'm skipping this one. My toes will probably thank me, as the skin on the other big toe started to come off during last night's class.
PreZ is taking the test, but that's also because shihan wants to see his kata before deciding whether to put PreZ back up to green belt and honouring PreZ's old grading certificate that he presented. So if he does well on Saturday he'll be a blue belt at the very least, or green belt at the most. So exciting for him.
It's weird... I know that I get fitter and fitter, and that I'm in much better and also somewhat leaner shape than I was when we started in March. But some days during and/or after class I really don't feel as though I've progressed all that much. Same old uphill struggle. Eventually I might want to add in a third karate class during the week, seeing as yoga went on hold a month or two ago. But we'll see.
Physically I'm just not ready for it. Between the heat and humidity and the almost 3 week break we took during our vacation and the RNC and Labor day, I'm having a hard enough time just finishing the 1 hour All Students class, and haven't had the energy or breath to take the 1/2 hour Kata class after that. So a 2.5-3 hour promotion test is not looking appealing to me, especially as you don't get any breaks. As a lower belt you get to sit out a few things, because you're not required to know them at that level, but that's all the reprieve you get, and short at that... no water/bathroom breaks.
And so I'm skipping this one. My toes will probably thank me, as the skin on the other big toe started to come off during last night's class.
PreZ is taking the test, but that's also because shihan wants to see his kata before deciding whether to put PreZ back up to green belt and honouring PreZ's old grading certificate that he presented. So if he does well on Saturday he'll be a blue belt at the very least, or green belt at the most. So exciting for him.
It's weird... I know that I get fitter and fitter, and that I'm in much better and also somewhat leaner shape than I was when we started in March. But some days during and/or after class I really don't feel as though I've progressed all that much. Same old uphill struggle. Eventually I might want to add in a third karate class during the week, seeing as yoga went on hold a month or two ago. But we'll see.