I've alaways known that the skill of my sparring partner can affect the quality of my training. Yesterday, however, it became extremely clear. We were practicing counterattacks, and the idea was when attacked, go forward no matter what happens. Some things were bound to go wrong, but that was part of the training ( Read more... )

After a month (yes, it has been so long: Egypt and lecture on the other side of the Czech Republic, and work), I finally went to our sparring training last night. I was a little worried I'd not make it, but I actually enjoyed it greatly, though I could feel the trainings I've missed lately. But I still could fight everyone off somehow ( Read more... )

... I knew it would be hard. I knew it. I don't think I expected what we received today. Every 1st geup got a big orange paper where we are to gather points - for sparring trainings, for assisting with trainigs, seminars with our Korean master, seminars with other masters, referee exams ... special things, not normal trainings (the sparring ones ( Read more... )

Work is finished - I've designed the linguistics and philology keywords for our Institute's database besides completing half of the corpus of texts for my dissertation. Training's successfully over - we were FOUR there, at the sparring training where usually there are 10 people... wonder what happened. I've been kicked in the head, I've kicked a ( Read more... )

... at sparring, finally! Today's wonderful, but exhaustive training finally showed I am making progress. I could get to people I could't reach before, and, finally, after a sequence of 5 (short) fights, I can still BREATHE. I feel full of energy now, although I basically slept through the day at work ...

And yes, the energetic cat looks like we ( Read more... )