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theweaselkingSo, like, my day's about to end, and I'm bored. I'm also tired.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
So, like, my day's about to end, and I'm bored. I'm also tired.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
So, like, my day's about to end, and I'm bored. I'm also tired.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
I woke up at 5:20am this morning and was unable to fall back asleep; so I came to work.
My weight's slowly starting to edge down again, and I've given myself 4 months to lose the next 10 of the final 15lbs. I don't think 2.5lbs / month is an unattainable goal, and these last 15 have been taunting me for too long now. I am resolved, those pounds are coming off.
Class tonight should help. It's a sparring class, and since it's the last class of the night, it'll run late. Sparring means we wear gear. Foam rubber chest, shin, foot, hand and head gear. It's light, but it traps in heat like it was free. After you've been moving around for an hour wrapped in this crap, you feel like you're going to collapse, but it builds endurance like a mofo. Sparring is just a good workout in general. You have to keep moving or you might as well print 'Wavemaster' on your chest because you're going to get used like a kicking bag. I've been pretty relaxed in class this week, forcing myself to spar primarily with my left side facing my opponent. I've actually been doing okay, and I've been working my left side harder than my right, so while there's still a discrepancy there, it's not as huge as it was. Axe kicks kick serious ass, BTW. No one expects them, and if you don't drop your heal on your opponents head, you clear their guard and get to smack 'em around a bit.
One of our Black belts did something in a match on Tuesday that I had never seen outside of a video game before. She used five or six hook and round kicks in succession without dropping her leg on her opponent's head (we were free sparring, not point sparring, or she'd have stopped after the first contact). She was using light contact, as we aren't out to break each other, but even with that, it was still really nifty to watch from a spectator's POV. These were both Black belts (they may take it easy in the ring with us underbelts, but with each other, they don't hold back). Not that she owned the other girl, the match was pretty even for the most part, she just got lucky in that one bit and pulled off a move right out of Mortal Kombat.
I want to be that cool some day.
.