Exams and really good chocolate
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The karate grading tonight was something of a fiasco. Sensei called up the three of us who were testing for second green, then proceeded to run us through most of the exam for 1st purple, a grade above that we were testing for. The results really weren't good XD
It's not as if I don't know how to do that stuff, we're always working well above our grade in classes. But when you're all set to do lunging reverse punch, then he calls out double punch, your brain's still going, 'Huh? But that's not...' when you have to start. So when all three of us fucked up the first time and he gave us a second chance and we still looked kind of ragged, sensei finally twigged and apologised, and moved on... to the next purple grading move.
Some of it he later realised he'd screwed up, some of it he never did (well, maybe in really really hindsight, who knows?). But even when he got to the parts he called right, or the parts that were the same like the step kumite, we were all somewhat flustered and brain-dead, and I was just waving my arms around in vaguely the right places with absolutely no finesse or kime. And I was concentrating so damn hard in getting my arms in the right places for the moves I hadn't expected to do, the stances were all over the place and just had to take their chances, and I have no clue what my hips were doing (or more likely weren't). So I don't know what the grading senseis will do with all that. I guess they'll just have to give us all the benefit of the doubt....
In other news, we ate the second box of Ethel M chocolates from Vegas, and OMG, the truffles were even better than the nut and caramel selection. And given what a caramel addict I am, that's really saying something. I definitely have to find out if those things are for sale online ::yum::
It's not as if I don't know how to do that stuff, we're always working well above our grade in classes. But when you're all set to do lunging reverse punch, then he calls out double punch, your brain's still going, 'Huh? But that's not...' when you have to start. So when all three of us fucked up the first time and he gave us a second chance and we still looked kind of ragged, sensei finally twigged and apologised, and moved on... to the next purple grading move.
Some of it he later realised he'd screwed up, some of it he never did (well, maybe in really really hindsight, who knows?). But even when he got to the parts he called right, or the parts that were the same like the step kumite, we were all somewhat flustered and brain-dead, and I was just waving my arms around in vaguely the right places with absolutely no finesse or kime. And I was concentrating so damn hard in getting my arms in the right places for the moves I hadn't expected to do, the stances were all over the place and just had to take their chances, and I have no clue what my hips were doing (or more likely weren't). So I don't know what the grading senseis will do with all that. I guess they'll just have to give us all the benefit of the doubt....
In other news, we ate the second box of Ethel M chocolates from Vegas, and OMG, the truffles were even better than the nut and caramel selection. And given what a caramel addict I am, that's really saying something. I definitely have to find out if those things are for sale online ::yum::
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