A Dark Side Adventure

Monday Ashihara – Usual hard warmup and stretching. Then working in groups of 4-5 with one up the front and the others attacking one after the other – just continously coming at you. Various straight attacks, hard and fast, becomes intuitive. Very very good practise. The same group in a circle, one person in the middle and continous and multiple attack from all sides. I managed to turn one guy and kick him in the groin from behind which was startling and hilarious. Another excellent, challenging class.

Saturday- gkr senior grading class, a gruelling 5 hours - 3 hours of basics and combinations, an hour of kata and an hour of kumite, or something like that. My kata was awful but on the plus side I was really pleased with my stamina, I pushed myself hard and I could have kept going.  Bruised and big blisters on my feet.