2006 Workout #102: Small crowd, big kihon…

Tonight’s workout was quite interesting… when Dad and I arrived early, Valle Vista was completely blocked off because some jackasses had decided to cut down two of the giant trees that line that street. Giant, majestic trees that have probably been here longer that the people that settled this state cut down for no apparent reason, from all visible indications they were in pretty good shape too.

That unpleasantness aside, I was able to get in 5 Sochin in before class and still have some time left over to help Dad and with some test basics. I (and a few other black belts) had planned to use the first class for kata and let Oedewaldt teach the rest, but for reasons unknown he decided to change things up at the last minute and split the small class of around 8 people into groups for the five black belts that had shown up.

So we did that. Since I was working with the brown belts already, and I was deigned to take them to the other room and continue working with them on their test basics. We made it through their entire basic syllabus taking care to point out important aspects of the techiques and correcting any deviation that we could see. Midway through the run of inward block reverse punch, I commented that needed to use some more hips in his block. He tried twice, and then made an AWFUL face and froze where he stood. After about five seconds, I asked him if he was all right and he said “I just pulled something bad.” He hobbled off to the side, apparently he badly pulled his buttular region to the point where he couldn’t really sit down. He was able to move on his own enough to leave after first class, but I could tell he was hurting quite a lot. That only marks about the second time I can recall anyone injuring themselves doing kihon, so he can mark that one up to the record books.

After the first class was done, we collectively decided to work on some kata since it was just brown and black belts left. It was agreed that we needed a bit more Sochin and Unsu, so I walked the class through ten Sochin in 20 minutes. Mike-san then picked up for the rest of the class to lead them through Unsu, and , and I excused ourselves to work on kata in the other room. I ended up putting down 31 kata by the time everything was done, and BOY was I tired. We ended up doing four Sochin in a row for reasons unknown to human sanity… we sure did put down a lot of kata in 30 minutes.

I often wonder why I do things like this to myself knowing full well that I have committed to playing paintball with my coworkers tomorrow and doing 100 Sochin on Saturday. Its like I enjoy a constant state of physical turmoil. 🙂

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Sochin Counter
Accomplished / Goal == Percent Complete
1451 / 2000 == 72.55%
Average Kata per Workout: 15.27
Estimated Workouts Remaining: 36
Workouts that gained more than 1%: 32
Workouts that gained more then 5%: 1