Hurts so Good

Fast paced kick-boxing last night, working with R mostly which means I can punch and kick hard during the pad work - when I'm with one of the girls I always feel like I have to hold back a bit so I don't knock them over! T was being hard on me about getting my turning kicks right, making sure I'm turning my hip over properly. This means that by the end of the session my hips were aching, but in a good sort of way that I quite like really (is there something wrong with me to feel that way?) I also managed to trip myself up and fall over during some spinning kicks!

Then Kung Fu, tried to teach the yellow sashes some more Chang Chuan, the problem being that it was the bit that I struggle with myself nowadays because it starts the same as a section of Yang Fan Chuan and I always end up doing that instead 'cos I practise it much more often. I think I got it straight in the end though.

Sparring at the end, I'm enjoying it more and more lately. Paired up with the guy who knows Mok Gar Kung Fu and we gave each other a good fight I think, although I was a bit nervous because we weren't wearing gloves.

After the lesson I went through two-person choy li fut, mantis six-punch and the single person butterfly knives. Still lots to brush up on.

School's Out

Saturday was the last kids class for a few weeks over Easter. It was already quite quiet - don't know if the gale-force winds put everyone off?

Good class with the littlest ones, they were relatively calm and in a mood to follow instructions, then the beginners (which J joined in with), and finally the improvers, who were surprisingly calm too. One of the J's friends F, who is pretty good, has decided she's going to do the whole of Yang Fan Chuan in one go for the grading. this is good because it will mean she catches up with the group just above her, and can train with them, rather than being the only one doing her grade as she is at the moment. And I'm pleased that she's keen to try - I think she's one of the kids who does KF because she enjoys it, rather than because it's something her parents think she ought to do.

Anyway, my next couple of Saturdays will be a little less manic than usual - in fact we're going to go away for a bit of a break next Friday....