Time Flies

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog.  Busy work, busy home, makes blogging a lower priority.  I also became a little frustrated after a bad karate class.  It was kata day and the person teaching kata wasn’t the best teacher.  Just because someone can do something well doesn’t mean she can teach it.  Thankfully she doesn’t actually show up to class very often.  It was the first time I felt like maybe I wouldn’t make it through this.  Screw that!  I’m not letting someone else decide that for me!  Whew!  Nuff said.   

Now to more current things… Big D and I both have 5 orange tips and will be testing for our orange belt in the next couple of weeks.  It sure will be nice to have some color around my waist.  I think I’m ready for the test.  I got us a mat and a free-standing bag for practice.  Now we can practice at home more like we do in the dojo.  I’m also trying to work out on a regular basis on the days I don’t have karate class.  I find if I do that, I’m less sore after grappling.  We’ll see what this week brings!

Down to two

Well, it’s now down to two of us.  Little D was a little too young to keep focus during karate classes.  We’ve decided to forgo karate for him until he is a little older.  I think it was a combination of his age and the behavior of those in the little kids karate program.  Little D is at the age where he is immediately influenced by the behavior of others.  Unfortunately the other little boys in his class misbehave an awful lot during class and Little D can’t seem to resist the temptation.  Funny how when those boys aren’t in class, he behaves perfectly.  Oh well, at least when we decide the time is right he’ll be old enough to enter the youth program his brother attends.  DH also said he might be ready to join in the fun, so that would be a benefit.  For now me and Big D will continue towards our goal.

 Looking forward to this week.  Grappling day is Tuesday.  So far grappling is one of my favorite activities.  We’ll see how I do as I tweaked my shoulder a bit putting up some blinds this week.  Kata is Thursday, and I think I have pinan 1 down.  Hopefully we’ll take it through again as we have two new people in the class, and I need to get some more practice.

I did get a new gi last week.  My old one has threadbare knees.  The new one is a standard gi instead of a pullover.  I think I prefer this one.  I had to sew on the school patch, which is a bit of a challenge for me as I have no talent for sewing… anything!  I decided to use Patch Attach and it worked well.  We’ll see how it holds up to washing.