Hell yeah! I managed to pass on Saturday! Admittedly, the trash talk about cutting stuff with my feets has very firmly bitten me in the ass. Since I was the only person testing today, instead of a full test, the instructors just ran a regular class while paying a little extra attention to me. Made it a pretty low-pressure situation, but as per usual, that didn't keep me from being way too tense, as I perpetually am. I'm getting pretty used to getting critiqued on that point. I need to start taking horse tranquilizers before tests.
Besides tension, there were a few minor slip ups that my internal monologue was screaming at me for doing while I was in the middle of doing them. I got some good advice on a few problem areas, and a few new modifications to technique canon.
Oh, and then I tried to break my leg.
I got through the first board break no problem: Ridge-hand strike (2 Boards). Then there was a Jump Axe Kick (1 Board), and a Hop-in Side Kick (2 Boards). Never made it to the Hop-in Side.
I didn't have the holders lower the Jump-Axe board down far enough, and so I ended up over extending my leg while tipping forward, which, although it broke the board no problem, also hyper extended my knee, and tore up my hamstring. I think. The thing barely supported me the rest of the day, but I did manage to stretch it out enough that I could make the hop-in side break on Sunday, and recover a little pride. I'm hoping it's a pulled muscle and not something more important being actually torn.
Hey, at least I got the belt. Ordered a new heavier uniform (No more of that scratchy cheap-shit canvas), and I'm already looking forward to my next belt.
-Rey
2 comments:
ouch!!!!!
no breaking yourself!
...though it does sound like you are having fun doing it!
Yeah, it was REALLY fun. Always good to see the masters in CT. I actually hung around after class so that Ash could get a mini-class for her more advanced forms, and I got to watch that school's sparring team work out, one of whom is an inhuman killing machine. I saw him deliver wild floating jump spin wheel kicks that would make both Ken AND Ryu weep tears of blood.
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