I’m not of huge fan of kids in general, but I’ve gotten better with more exposure to them in class. As a secondary instructor I do feel a little pride when they see me in town and say hi or I get told by parents how much I’m mentioned. Ego massage is such a great binder.
So last night I’m helping out Teacher with the kids. While they do upper blocks I’m supposed to walk around doing chops to their heads to make sure they are doing things correctly. In this case correct would be my downward strike being deflected.
A few of the kids didn’t have quite enough of an angle so I’d do the strike and they’d end up bopping themselves on the head with their own fists. I immediately felt guilty about that and wondered if they’d show up again for the next class. I think I’m probably over-analyzing again.
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In the regular class we barely had anyone show (10 seems small now!) and we focused on spinning kicks. I don’t recall ever having a whole class working on variations and drills and it was great fun, but old age snuck on me when I wasn’t looking.
Dave, Trucker and me are all roughly 45 by a few months and we all have limitations physically. Dave has rough knees and some flexibility issues, Trucker crushed a vertebrae and has constant back issues and then there’s me with my back and knees. Thankfully, my knees have been coming along because I haven’t been running, but my back has been playing around with me.
The exercise that started all this was the semi crescent block with one leg and then a jumping crescent with the other. Great fun, but my back would “pull” a lot of the time with one side. Very uncomfortable! We switched out to a roundhouse that rotated to a hook-kick. One out of ten felt dead on, but every poorly executed one sent electricity up my spine.
After cooling down a bit at the end of class I could barely get my sweat pants on. Dave said to me, “I wasn’t trying to be 20 again.” Swine.
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