Another classic night of sleep before early morning beatings. This means I'm waking up about three times to check my watch because I'm positive that I slept over my alarm.
It's starts about 1 am and by the time the alarm goes off I'm completely zombified. Warm ups at the house were borderline ridiculous. I was trying not to step on the cats and couldn't remember what I was doing from one thing to the next.
I got to the school and started running in an attempt to get blood pumping to my brain. I would say that once we got started that we were doing pretty good until we got into multiple moves and then I couldn't mirror moves very well. At that point no matter what Keith said I couldn't get it straight.
We ran through the basics and it went a bit better than Monday evening, but I still had to ask about Sang Soo do vs Sudo. It's tough on me because they sound so similar when spoken quickly. It's the old "kick and then fall back into a cat stance and throw out a block" scenario. It's confusing when I'm not awake.
After that we went into Il Soo sik. Joseph was there so he was supposed to do Sam Soo sik (three moves to my "one"), but that was so confusing that we simply went with my "one step" stuff. And instead of starting at the beginning we went to the end and started working on the last couple of moves. I'm not sure that was the best idea because we bogged down on the mirroring issues.
In one step sparring we are supposed to be able to do the technique on either side of attack or execution (Mirroring). Some of it's easier and some of it's complicated. Today was just a mess. I hate to blame Keith, since he was trying to help quite a bit, but I ended up being more and more confused. And much of it was stuff that I've done before, but just spiraled downhill. Keith said the wires were crossing.
Keith stopped us at the last couple of minutes so Joseph and I could spar. I haven't done this in like six months, but I was excited and anxious to try my new kicks and was pleased that they came more naturally than I thought, but at one one point Joe and me got too close and tangled up and I ended up kneeing him in the groin when I tried set up for a kick. Whoops! He was okay, but I was pretty red-faced.
That got me a sparring basics talk which I totally deserved. Out of practice and wires crossed. Hopefully tomorrow will go better.
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Working on the open book test for the belt has been eye-opening. I've got a lot to remember. I feel good about the 8 main principles and getting better about the 10 rules, but there are reams of things to get under my belt.
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