2007 Workout #82: The Painful Return…

Tonight’s workout was excellent… we started out with a unique basics class by where we were made to do techniques into the center of a circle. The brown and black belts got to do some fancy opposite hand blocking combinations while the rest of the class did regular block punch combinations. It was a good workout, and fooled us into thinking it was going to be a fast burn killer workout and it just turned out to be a *mental* killer workout. 🙂

The second class was a fast paced warmup with sparring combinations, which then turned into 3-5 time attack and slow sparring. My brain was getting in my way tonight… my attacks were tentative for the first part of the class. I was across from Lawrence-san, who had to take several breaks to catch his breath. Much to my luck, Sensei Brewer filled in and gave me quite the master class in sparring. I was *really* tentative when sparring him, however after I relaxed I was able to get in some pretty successful attacks. I paid for it in full, when Sensei planted one of the most beautiful spinning back kicks RIGHT IN MY STOMACH. It was the type of attack where you saw it coming just soon enough to be mesmerizing as it hit you.

I need to get back after it much more… it seems my body can still muster up some good techniques when I let it, however figuring out how to relax enough to let it happen naturally again will be the trick! Good to be back!