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Friday night, Jeremy said, "You couldn't make it through one of our classes. You'd pass out or throw up or quit." That's a physical challenge. I don't turn those down. So, I agreed to show up at World Vibe MMA Dojo on Wednesday at 5.30. I was nervous. I haven't trained in so long, almost 2.5 years since I was in a dojo. But I figured I could do it if I wanted it bad enough.
So I went, and no one there knew that'd I'd had any training before. Jeremy introduced me as, "This is Lea, she's gonna join us today. She thinks she can hang with the big boys." They made me sign a waiver, and I could tell when they looked at me that they thought I would probably take it easy. So they had one guy "teach me the basics." I told him that I'd trained before, but didn't give any details at all. He was impressed with my technique and told his instructor, Tami, look, she can work with the rest of us, she already knows how to punch.
Then another guy walked into the dojo, and the instructor (who is apparently a boxer) asked him to run the class, because he's a Muay Thai fighter. He started us on some drills. As he counted, he would comment and correct students. Every time he said something to me it was, "good" or "great." On the third drill (front kicks), he looked at me, said, "Perfect." Kept looking at me, cocked his head to the side and said, "You must me be a black belt in something." I just smiled, nodded slightly and said, "Shotokan." Everyone looked at me, looked at Jeremy, and then Tami said, "Jeremy, you challenged a black belt to take a class here?" Everyone started laughing.
The point is, I'm awesome. Or rather, my former Senseis and Shihan are awesome. I had a great time, they even let me borrow the mat to run kata after the class. And I had an in-depth conversation with the Muay Thai fighter about the finer points of running a dojo and kata.
I'm so going back.
So I went, and no one there knew that'd I'd had any training before. Jeremy introduced me as, "This is Lea, she's gonna join us today. She thinks she can hang with the big boys." They made me sign a waiver, and I could tell when they looked at me that they thought I would probably take it easy. So they had one guy "teach me the basics." I told him that I'd trained before, but didn't give any details at all. He was impressed with my technique and told his instructor, Tami, look, she can work with the rest of us, she already knows how to punch.
Then another guy walked into the dojo, and the instructor (who is apparently a boxer) asked him to run the class, because he's a Muay Thai fighter. He started us on some drills. As he counted, he would comment and correct students. Every time he said something to me it was, "good" or "great." On the third drill (front kicks), he looked at me, said, "Perfect." Kept looking at me, cocked his head to the side and said, "You must me be a black belt in something." I just smiled, nodded slightly and said, "Shotokan." Everyone looked at me, looked at Jeremy, and then Tami said, "Jeremy, you challenged a black belt to take a class here?" Everyone started laughing.
The point is, I'm awesome. Or rather, my former Senseis and Shihan are awesome. I had a great time, they even let me borrow the mat to run kata after the class. And I had an in-depth conversation with the Muay Thai fighter about the finer points of running a dojo and kata.
I'm so going back.