I was reading old karate posts.I got to the quote halfway through that post and stopped dead ( Read more... )

Karate tonight. Actually, teaching little dragons, and then two karate classes, and then kickboxing. I didn't do *full* sparring... block & counter, though I stayed away from full contact. (*sighs* I miss it.) I've actually been teaching lately, which is a little odd. I taught constantly before my LOA, but since I'd been gone forever and hadn ( Read more... )

Imagine hackey-sack taken to a whole new level. ^_^ Field of entry drill gone haywire. My mother and I started it, because she wants practice getting her spinning crescent kicks where they ought to be, and because I wanted to make sure I could still harmlessly brush someone's nose with mine in the middle of full sparring. What better to use but ( Read more... )

They're already planning my black belt test ( Read more... )

Still fighting with running. As I mentioned before, it's not the running part that bothers me. My chest is still out of wack ( Read more... )

I wonder if my shoulders are getting worse. The past few weeks they have been acting up more recently- not bothering me (it hasn't reached anywhere near that amount of pain) but they have been rather consistently in pain. That fact in itself doesn't bother me at all. It's what it could mean that does- are they getting worse? or have i only been ( Read more... )

There is a guy down the way from me who pesters me any time that I'm down that end of the mall. I haven't decided yet it he is merely loud and stupid or if he is hitting on me. One generally doesn't go without the other, though. He's the kind that's dangerous for the simple reason that they're too stupid to know when to stop. He was generally ( Read more... )

Went to the dojo tonight, for dale's black belt test. He's the last one left, and then it's mom and michelle's turn. That's a while away from now, though, but it's coming ( Read more... )

I really miss taking karate. Considerations of t'ai chi have been bouncing around in my head for a little while- theoretically,it seems like a good idea; martial arts w/o the high impact for my shoulders, still learning the art without having to sacrifice everything else in the process. Besides the fact that they have wonderful long katas, and that ( Read more... )

I went back to the dojo for the first time in months. Not technically months, I suppose, I have been these once this summer, but that was just stopping in and out, watching them fight and then disapearing as usual ( Read more... )