2005 Workout #45: Just not good enough…

I was feeling out of sorts before heading into the dojo today. I was tired, kind’ve floaty headed, and generally just out to lunch. I got to class a few minutes late, but was still out finishing his coffee and told me to get the class going.

I did some warmups and then lead the class through some simple basics repetition. This usually makes me feel better, but this time it just ended up making me feel hot all over without too much of the adrenaline kick that I usually get from training.

I passed class off to Sensei Brewer very unceremoniously, since I was sure he’d have a better go at it than I would at this point. He did, and I got a pretty good workout and started to feel slightly better as time went on.

In between classes I got some water, and then it was back to the dojo to do some kata. They didn’t feel great, so I stopped after a couple and went to chat with and Sensei. Turns out Sensei Brewer got an article published in the international Shotokan Karate journal (Shotokan Karate Magazine) and he included some pictures, one of which has me in line with several other of the brown and black belts from our dojo. That was pretty neat, it’s always been one of my little secret desires to show up in that magazine in some capacity. Maybe one of these days I’ll know enough to start writing intellegently about Karate and get published.

Or maybe not.

The second class was kata central. We did a few of the Heian kata to warm up and then did the black belt katas that Erbe and I were working on for the test. Mine felt labored and I could tell I wasn’t locking properly. I struggled with simple principles that I knew I was doing wrong, but still I couldn’t get right. I was lamenting this fact in between kata, and made the comment that I was just nervous and this was to be expected.

Well what do you know. I’m finally getting nervous, it’s about time. I just hope I get this all worked out in the next few weeks so I can go down there and pass this thing. More diligent training… I just have to tell myself what Sensei said in his article: if you think, you die.