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Man, I'm all bruised and beat up this morning.
Note to self: don't throw reverse hook kicks at the heads of people 8" taller than you, an elbow to the calf fucking HURTS when they block (no, he didn't elbow me on purpose, that's just where his elbow was due to the angles involved because of the height difference).
In an interesting parallel, we had a competition a couple weekends back, and once again I took first place in sparring. Before I made black belt, I'd never so much as placed in sparring. Ever. I always did well in forms. Now I'm barely placing in forms and taking my sparring division (granted, it's smaller now than it was in blue to brown; black belt men 30+ are apparently not terribly common).
Class tonight should be 'fun'.
Note to self: don't throw reverse hook kicks at the heads of people 8" taller than you, an elbow to the calf fucking HURTS when they block (no, he didn't elbow me on purpose, that's just where his elbow was due to the angles involved because of the height difference).
In an interesting parallel, we had a competition a couple weekends back, and once again I took first place in sparring. Before I made black belt, I'd never so much as placed in sparring. Ever. I always did well in forms. Now I'm barely placing in forms and taking my sparring division (granted, it's smaller now than it was in blue to brown; black belt men 30+ are apparently not terribly common).
Class tonight should be 'fun'.
