In order for me to increase my instructional time I went to the Monday evening class for Dan candidates. I was told that it could have anywhere from three to ten people depending on if people wanted practice or were in the middle of prepping for the upcoming exam.
Mr. Moore was there working on his 2nd degree basics, so I had fairly uninterrupted attention from Colette and Andy. This was also a longer class than I normally get in the morning. I made this longer by showing up earlier and riding along in a beginner's class for a few minutes. I got to run through the first form a few times which is like a small warm up. Before I got there, I spent 20 or 30 minutes trying to warm up, because the weekend of sitting and socializing made me stiff. Strangely warming up in the afternoon was more difficult than the morning.
They ran me through the basics and for whatever reason I was off my game. They found four big errors I need to clean up. I don't normally make them, but I couldn't clear my brain. I'm starting to think a full day of life really is tough. Morning has strangely become a good time for me. Starting with a clean slate
I'd mentioned to Colette that Keith had me using the dummy during kicking drills and how it really caused me a problem, so she dragged out "Bob" the dummy and made me work on distance and targeting. Again, the mistakes started showing up pretty quickly, but she has a relaxed pace and allowed me to stick to it until the technique improved. There are two kicks that are really frustrating to me. Jumping side kick and jumping, turning crescent. The crescent has come along, but I think at that point I was experiencing a lot of embarrassment stress and things naturally fell apart.
That consumed all the class time and we ended up chatting about upcoming events. On the 8th we'll have a Saturday training/testing event for a half day, so I'm looking forward to that.
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