Cautious Tuesday

My house is like a hospital. I stop kissing my children and wash my hands all the time. Both children walk around with a permanent white squall around the nose aria and coffing fits interrupt my sleep. I have pulled out all the stops to try and stay healthy, but took a bit of a nose dive since Thursday. I decided to go to class, but to take it easy and sweat as little as possible.

I got to class and tolled the Sensei that I am not 100%, but that I want to train. The class was called to order and the devastation started. I went to the back of the class and did my own relaxed warm-ups. I stretched methodically and did a couple of back rolls. The back roll is a quite daunting on the concrete floor, you can easily bump and bruise your knee. It’s a good exercise and I will do it again till I can do it without using my hands on the concrete.

We did a bit of body conditioning and I joined in. One of the juniors trained with me. He was tense. Every one of his strikes was forceful and strained. I could see why the Senseis were hammering me in the beginning about being so tens. He was wasting a lot of energy and getting poor results. Soon he was in pain.

After a couple of combinations we went over to syllabus. I wanted to get the Tonfa down in my mind and make sure that I know how to use this brute force striking weapon. I pretty much know the strikes and locks and it felt good while I swung the weapon around my opponent’s arm and locked him up. I asked a couple of questions and the Senseis demonstrated and cleared up the last bit of my confusion. Now all I need is a little bit of training and I will be spot on at the grading.

Embrace the shadows