This one is, like I said, aimed at looking at my failures yesterday.

Let me backpedal a bit first. Nathan is a red belt in class. He's very good at what he does. On Fridays he takes the kiddy class for an hour. He's only been doing it a few weeks and sometimes finds it frustrating to keep an eye on all the kids so they behave. Since I'd probably be around I offered to help out. Yeah I'm only a green tag, but I'm another set of eyes to tell kids to shut up. He accepted. My role is basically support.

This Monday I came to class ready to help since Nath was covering this kiddy lesson. I held the bag while Nathan was going to show the kids what he wanted them to take turns doing. He's pretty fucking powerful. He's abot 80kg, I think. So over 10kg heavier than I am. And he's built like a shit brick house. Usually I'm fine with it. I take his force and better myself through it. That wasn't quite the case yesterday.

He landed his side kick like he normally would. I clearly wasn't holding the back properly because I ended up punching myself in the face, cutting the inside of my lip, and falling on my ass. The kids found it hilarious, but I was majorly disorientated. I feel like I've lost power. Maybe it was an off day.

The other bit that frustrated me was the jumping flying kicks. You run, you jump, you kick. That's it. I appear to have some inhibition to jumping. I run, then I keep running until I'm past the target and run to the back of the queue. Boom. If I do jump the kick either doesn't follow, or merely strokes the pad. Well fuck you, pad. I just can't do them. Nath asked what he could do to help. I said nothing, since I couldn't even bring myself to do them when in the adult class with my main Master. He's now decided we need 'to work on it together', ahaha. Maybe.

Master Keith is going to be doing some in house awards this year. Best fighter, best female fighter, most improved tkd student, most improved hapkido student, best tkd student and best hapkido student of the year. Pretty cool. I'm supposedly getting the best female fighter of the year, but only because I'm the only female fighter. There'll be a trophy, but it feels like another default win. I have yet to actually win something not by default. Early days yet, I guess.

The competitions I've been going to have a leaderboard for overall points. You get 100 for gold, 50 for silver and 25 for bronze. If I'm to win, I need another gold and silver medal at the next tournament. I'm gonna aim for that. We'll see, again.

Adveentuuuurrreee.