As per usual, Keith and me were twisting and kicking all through the class. We went through all the wrist grabs (14?) and then moved on to one step sparring. I think we got to seven. While I did my elementary moves in a halted, uncoordinated fashion, Keith would do his more complicated higher stuff - practicing a bit for his test tomorrow. This ended up being a bit jarring from time to time as the impact was a reminder to loosen up instead of eating kicks and grabs.
Talk about a flashback. I remember the shoulder discomfort from this stuff from back in my TSD days. I'm going to be so sore. Ugh.
Andy asked me if I was going to do the pre-eval at the end of class. There wasn't any pressure, but I realized as I was driving home that I didn't want to do it where I wasn't with other people around. Weird. It wasn't like anyone was going to feed me the lines anyway, but I can imagine flailing around in my basement trying to guess at what Korean was being said on a zoom call. Somehow that was more embarrassing?
I'll watch Keith and Bill test tomorrow to get an idea of what the test looks like in action.
In Japanese styles the guy that throws the punch and gets tossed around in tests (and practice) is called an Uke. It's pronounced "Oo-kay". In Korean the term is Shoe. I have no idea how it's spelled yet. Keith has a sizable volume of partners work for his test and Andy is going to be his Shoe. Hah!
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