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Not sure about your workplace but one guy I worked with had a punchbag hanging in the - mainly unused - stairwell. I never saw him using it.
I tried a beginner's kickboxing class earlier...
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Not sure about your workplace but one guy I worked with had a punchbag hanging in the - mainly unused - stairwell. I never saw him using it.
Thanks for the thought - sadly in my case that's a non-starter as the office is tiny and movement often hampered by varying piles of crap...
I had my first grading today; after missing the last one a couple of months ago as I was ill.
Oddly I wasn't particularly anxious and it went OK, despite a crap night's kip beforehand I only mildly cocked up a few moves. The format was similar to a class but with less warm up, only verbal instruction (no guidance / examples) and of course we were being marked.
I made the mistake of assuming there would be no strength component to the assessment so did some stuff on the rings a few days ago.. turns out my assumption was incorrect and I'll be aching a bit more tomorrow than I already was this morning..
Everyone passed including one woman who joined fairly recently and wasn't very confident, which was nice. A few people were conspicously absent; not sure if they've just been ill or have binned it off. In this respect the class is a bit weird as few know each other well enough to be in contact outside while (understandably) the instructor doesn't announce departures so I suppose an amount of attendees simply disappear.
We did a bit of one on one sparring at the end for the first time; which was tiring enough just deciding where to put the pads for your partner to hit... and when I had a go most of my technique went out the window. I suppose it's just a case of applying what I already know in a new context when we're doing it more regularly - although I'm not sure when that will be.
After a Christmas break there's a new module in January. It seems progression to additional / supplementary teaching after the main classes is at the discretion of the instructor so I'll have to wait and see how that pans out.
Still enjoying it and having now done one full module (I joined a bit into the previous one) I do feel like I have at least a basic handle on the techniques taught; if only in the sense of practicing form rather than actually twatting stuff... but it feels like progress
Oddly I wasn't particularly anxious and it went OK, despite a crap night's kip beforehand I only mildly cocked up a few moves. The format was similar to a class but with less warm up, only verbal instruction (no guidance / examples) and of course we were being marked.
I made the mistake of assuming there would be no strength component to the assessment so did some stuff on the rings a few days ago.. turns out my assumption was incorrect and I'll be aching a bit more tomorrow than I already was this morning..
Everyone passed including one woman who joined fairly recently and wasn't very confident, which was nice. A few people were conspicously absent; not sure if they've just been ill or have binned it off. In this respect the class is a bit weird as few know each other well enough to be in contact outside while (understandably) the instructor doesn't announce departures so I suppose an amount of attendees simply disappear.
We did a bit of one on one sparring at the end for the first time; which was tiring enough just deciding where to put the pads for your partner to hit... and when I had a go most of my technique went out the window. I suppose it's just a case of applying what I already know in a new context when we're doing it more regularly - although I'm not sure when that will be.
After a Christmas break there's a new module in January. It seems progression to additional / supplementary teaching after the main classes is at the discretion of the instructor so I'll have to wait and see how that pans out.
Still enjoying it and having now done one full module (I joined a bit into the previous one) I do feel like I have at least a basic handle on the techniques taught; if only in the sense of practicing form rather than actually twatting stuff... but it feels like progress
