2005 Workout #132: Death By Basics…

Tonight’s class was the next logical step above Monday’s Mapleton class. We did similar drills, only we did about twice as many repetitions for each combination. I was beat by the end of the first class, and then we had kata and sparring for the second class.

Among the high points were a successful foot sweep of , really cereberal slow sparring with Garls-san, and getting mauled by Erbe-san. Erbe confounds me. Every time I try to spar him, I do OK for awhile and then he just gets inside my distance and I get annihilated. I’ve been trying to do the “better life by body shifting” thing that I was on to before the last work-caused break that I took, but it wasn’t working. The underlying problem is that I don’t think there is any amount of “sneaky” that can beat a 100+ pound weight advantage. If there is, I need some instruction to figure out what amount I need to acquire.

The room got so muggy from all of us sweating up a storm that it got slippery to a dangerous degree toward the end. I got to spar with Dad some more, which is always good fun. He’s starting to figure out how to move, which is making him fall dangerously close to Erbe’s category.