Hap Ki Do Extravaganza!
Hmmm... so I am bored and whaddya know, decided I should write a blog about my Hap Ki Do Retreat Extravaganza! (I am still trying to figure out why I paid good money to get up at 6am everyday of my long weekend to get bruised and abused... but no matter)
The retreat began on Satuday, we left early morning, arrived at the cabin in the mountains at approx. 12pm. .. here is the schedule for the rest of the weekend...
Saturday May 17th
1pm - unpacking
2pm - Kicking Class (during which my hip dislocated again, and I had to sit most of it out)
3pm - Pattern Class
4pm - Snack Break
5pm - Self Defense Class
6pm - Dinner
7pm - Hap Ki Do Games
8pm - Lecture and Meditation
9pm - Rest (until bed time at 11... during this time Master Yoon was nice enough to do accupunture and accupressure on me. Accupunture was painless, the accupuncture was another story all together... I am not kidding you when I say my hips and ass are black and blue still.. a week later.. its incredible. HOWEVER it actually worked and despite the pain it was a lot better afterwards and I didnt have to worry about my hip the rest of the weekend)
Sunday May 18th (AKA longest day of my life)
6am - Wakeup and time for quick snack. no breakfast
6:20am - Calisthenics (killlll me!)
7am - Hike (this turned more into a two hour hike instead of a one hour)
8am- Breakfast
9am - Patterns and Kicking Class
10am - Lecture
11am - Sparring Class
12pm - Lunch
1pm - Kum Sul Technique (weapons training... very cool... sword technique)
2pm - War Games (pretty much the funnest thing ever, and I dont mean that sarcastically.. it really was a blast)
3pm - War Games
4pm - Snack Break
5pm - Self Defense Class
6pm - Dinner
7pm - Hap Ki Do Games (chicken fights.. haha.. and tank wars.. so fun)
8pm - Lecture and Meditation
9pm - Rest (until bed time at 11)
Monday May 19
6am - Wake up
6:30am - Calisthenics (because practicing your knife hand on trees at 6:30am is apparently a good idea...)
7am - Breakfast
8am - Trip to Castle falls for meditation until 11am (Again, meditating in the rain, in t-shirts by the freezing cold falls... again.. a good idea)
11am - Lunch and packing
AND... thats basically it... excpet for the minor detail that I was THE ONLY GIRL THERE!!! (well there was one other girl that was a cook, but I was the only girl student out of 18 students)... but it was fun.... despite my bitching. It was a helluva lot of fun. I can't wait for next year and more torture.... Now I just have to keep on wearing long sleeves for another couple days to hide the bruises littering my body so people dont start thinking I have been abused.
Oh... then I went to sparring class this friday... and got kicked in the ribs by a 200lb green belt. Fuck that hurt. Incidentally I yelled "fuck" rather loudly when it happened, and the kids had just started arriving for the kids class.... OOPS. Sorry kiddies!
Remind me again why I do martial arts??? Am I insane?
Why yes! Yes I am ... but it is actually a ton of fun, and good exercise, and just a good thing to know how to defend yourself in general.
And thats all I have to say...