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I'll be going out tonight, I don't care what I do
Hope I wake up in the morning and I'm feeling black and blue
I'm gonna feel tomorrow like a worn down pair of shoes
Only point of this body here tonight is to be used
--The Devil Makes Three
Training was great fun and lots of sweat tonight. The guy who taught is filling in while Friedman Sensei is away. He wants his own regular class but hasn't gotten it yet, and he knows the way to impress Friedman Sensei is to make your students hurt. In a good way.
Only three of us on the mat, aside from the teacher. One was an uchi deshi, long past the point where he had to get tough or give up. One had to take breaks periodically to breathe, and well after class was over he was still sitting on the mat trying to recover. In the middle there was me.
Our leader asked, at the end of the night, whether we felt we'd gotten a good cardio workout. He wanted to make sure he was pushing us enough. The tired guy said something like "I can't answer that question, I'm still breathing too hard."
"And what about you?" the teacher asked me. Before I could answer, he added, "but you're in good shape, aren't you?"
Seemed like a strange question, and not one I was expected to answer. I wasn't panting, I could have kept going for another half hour or so. At the same time, I certainly couldn't keep up with either of the current uchi deshi. How do you decide who's in shape without comparison? If a body stays the same but the reference group changes, does that change the answer?
It reminded me of a professor in college who posed an interesting pair of questions to the class.
1. Are you healthy?
2. How do you know?
So I'll add one more and pass the questions along to all y'all.
1. Are you healthy? How do you know?
2. Are you in good shape? How do you know?
Hope I wake up in the morning and I'm feeling black and blue
I'm gonna feel tomorrow like a worn down pair of shoes
Only point of this body here tonight is to be used
--The Devil Makes Three
Training was great fun and lots of sweat tonight. The guy who taught is filling in while Friedman Sensei is away. He wants his own regular class but hasn't gotten it yet, and he knows the way to impress Friedman Sensei is to make your students hurt. In a good way.
Only three of us on the mat, aside from the teacher. One was an uchi deshi, long past the point where he had to get tough or give up. One had to take breaks periodically to breathe, and well after class was over he was still sitting on the mat trying to recover. In the middle there was me.
Our leader asked, at the end of the night, whether we felt we'd gotten a good cardio workout. He wanted to make sure he was pushing us enough. The tired guy said something like "I can't answer that question, I'm still breathing too hard."
"And what about you?" the teacher asked me. Before I could answer, he added, "but you're in good shape, aren't you?"
Seemed like a strange question, and not one I was expected to answer. I wasn't panting, I could have kept going for another half hour or so. At the same time, I certainly couldn't keep up with either of the current uchi deshi. How do you decide who's in shape without comparison? If a body stays the same but the reference group changes, does that change the answer?
It reminded me of a professor in college who posed an interesting pair of questions to the class.
1. Are you healthy?
2. How do you know?
So I'll add one more and pass the questions along to all y'all.
1. Are you healthy? How do you know?
2. Are you in good shape? How do you know?