karate, again
Oct. 7th, 2004 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesOn the one hand, being back in karate again is great. On the other, I wish there was an accelerated course. I train with the other beginners, and if I end up spending a month on nothing but the straight punch, the middle block, the front kick and the roundhouse, I'm going to get bored. I'm at a stage where I may have forgotten the existence of some techniques, but if you told me to do one, I could do it, and I'd be pleased with how I did it after 25 reps or so. I don't necessarily need to spend two hours a week on dissecting the front kick.
We were working on roundhouse kicks again tonight, which I admit need a lot of work. It's the balance (or lack thereof) that throws me off. But anyway, we got to work with pads, and I haven't actually kicked anything since I stopped taking classes at Oberlin. I was working with a guy who's probably at least one and a half times my weight and is taller than me by at least a foot, and I impressed him with how hard I was hitting the pad. (I haven't forgotten how to hold pads, either.) It felt good to actually hit something, instead of just hitting air, and the THWAP noise it makes when I hit the pad was very satisfying too.
I don't think I'm going to be so sore tomorrow. Or if I am, at least it'll be in different places.
We were working on roundhouse kicks again tonight, which I admit need a lot of work. It's the balance (or lack thereof) that throws me off. But anyway, we got to work with pads, and I haven't actually kicked anything since I stopped taking classes at Oberlin. I was working with a guy who's probably at least one and a half times my weight and is taller than me by at least a foot, and I impressed him with how hard I was hitting the pad. (I haven't forgotten how to hold pads, either.) It felt good to actually hit something, instead of just hitting air, and the THWAP noise it makes when I hit the pad was very satisfying too.
I don't think I'm going to be so sore tomorrow. Or if I am, at least it'll be in different places.
