Vanir is a dirty bastard…

Tonight my good buddy lead the beginners class. We started off by doing that classic torture drill where one person is held down in front stance by the other person. I was fine for that drill. I knew I was in for trouble when the second drill where we had to front kick over a belt tied to our leg was failing miserably. Apparently, my leg muscles can only handle so much deterioration from lactic acid and I couldn’t keep myself stable doing front kicks for any amount of effort. did a better job than I did, all the way around. She can verify my story, as my legs were shaking like hell just STANDING IN STANCE for the second drill. Totally embarrassing.

The yellow belt next to us was being quite annoying because he was trying his damnedest to get his head turned into a canoe by sitting right in front of Sarah and I while we were doing our kicking. He seemed oblivious that his life was in danger, and looked at me like I had two heads when I asked him to move over. Three times. Kids, yeesh.

For the second class, I asked if I could teach some drills relating to body shifting and kick combinations with a focus on side thrust kick. I was really in the mood to teach this for some reason, because of this I had a blast doing it. We started out doing some body shifting exercises with punches to get the feeling for the different stepping pattern, then we added in front kick instead of the second punch, and then from there we made it into the Side Kick of Doom. It seemed that a few of the black belts were getting the idea for this thing a little too well, which will probably result in Much Pain in coming weeks. We ended up with some kata, which was a nice cool down.

I had a great time tonight, I guess I was in the mood for training just like tonight and I like teaching A LOT. Great job Vanir, I’m going to curse your very essence when I get out of bed tomorrow. You bastard.