The Dan test weekend is coming up so my teacher, Keith is going to be heading off with a few others to show their stuff. He's got a tremendous heel bruise, that looks horrific, from some hard practice. He was a bit ginger during class, but ended up doing jumping axe kicks without any problem. If he was having a problem it didn't seem so from my point of view.
To prep for this week I made sure I practiced the last two days and sorted out a few more of the errors I've been making. Namely a jumping side kick followed by a punch. I'd been leaping incorrectly - I should have been turning in the air to use the rear foot as the kicking foot. And I totally forgot the lead foot pumping to get me more height. Ah well, that's sorted out now and looks a bit better.
Today's class was basics and we ran through that fairly quickly with corrections on only a few items. Better? Maybe.
We ended up on forms where there was a plethora of corrections. I'm good about remembered a third at best. You skip a couple of days and it's all down hill I swear.
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I'm coming up on my 55th birthday and have meditated on it a bit. The only real question is how long can I be this active doing this kind of thing? I would like to be able to keep doing this with the assumption that I'll get better, but I think the consensus is that you don't get better as you get older. That doesn't appear to be true though, at least not in my case. I'm getting more comfortable with the kicks and jumps and even a little bit with the Korean.
So I'll update my profile in a couple of weeks and keep moving forward with the thought that I'll get better.
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