Il so sik and Ho sin sul
Part of the Soo Bahk Do curriculum is self-defense (Il So Sik), but based around wrist and elbow locks. There is eighteen of them and I'm supposed to be demonstrating proficiency in them at some point. I made it to nine today so I'm half way as it were. Thankfully many of them are one side and then the other so it cuts down on remembering something super new.
The second area is Ho Sin Sul which is one-step sparring. Your training partner initiates action with a single punch and you do two to four response moves. The standard response it do block, do two strikes and end with a kick, but there is a bunch of these to explore. I'm not sure where I'm at with these, but they are fun and engaging.
I was doing well today and this could be attributed to a few things. My work week has been horrible this week. 10 hour days and unendurable stress. So bad that I can't sleep. However the magic of beatings is that you go in and for an hour you can't think about anything else and you can come out whistling or singing until the world catches up to bite you on the ass.
I worry that I'm too tired to do the class, but yesterday Keith worked me so hard that I thought I wasn't going to walk right ever again and today Andy kept me going straight through.
The benefit of sleeplessness is that you can get up early and spend a lot of extra time getting warmed up. When I left the house this morning I was already sweating. I had two cups of coffee and was ready to go. I got to the school early and ran while counting in Korean. Pretty good start!
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