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Level Up!!!!
20 April 2005 22:55I have just levelled up! Twice. I am now a third kyu, which in terms most of you will understand makes me a level 7 ninja. In karate terms I would be a brown belt.
Although I've always been fascinated by the martial arts I have never been especially good at them and prior to this I have never had the stamina to keep slogging through all the difficult bits where you feel like you're getting nowhere and if anything you appear to be backsliding. This time I have persisted, fought my way through and I now feel very rewarded for it.
It was mostly a normal lesson ( a good training session- I was working with someone a lot better than me and learning a lot from it ) but at the end the instructors asked me to demonstrate a couple of techniques and then got each person in the class to attack me in a different way. Somehow I managed to respond to each attack in a competent enough way that our instructors (one of whom is just back from training with the grandmaster in Japan, the other is back from having fallen of a scaffold and doing his back in) felt I was worthy to go up two grades in one go. I know it was my counters to the different attacks because the techniques they asked me to demonstrate they gave me the japanese names for and I absolutely could not remember at least one of them.
Now I have to live up to my new grade, which will be difficult- I will need to train harder and more often, really work on my locks and distancing and actually get around to learning the japanese names for the techniques and kata...
Although I've always been fascinated by the martial arts I have never been especially good at them and prior to this I have never had the stamina to keep slogging through all the difficult bits where you feel like you're getting nowhere and if anything you appear to be backsliding. This time I have persisted, fought my way through and I now feel very rewarded for it.
It was mostly a normal lesson ( a good training session- I was working with someone a lot better than me and learning a lot from it ) but at the end the instructors asked me to demonstrate a couple of techniques and then got each person in the class to attack me in a different way. Somehow I managed to respond to each attack in a competent enough way that our instructors (one of whom is just back from training with the grandmaster in Japan, the other is back from having fallen of a scaffold and doing his back in) felt I was worthy to go up two grades in one go. I know it was my counters to the different attacks because the techniques they asked me to demonstrate they gave me the japanese names for and I absolutely could not remember at least one of them.
Now I have to live up to my new grade, which will be difficult- I will need to train harder and more often, really work on my locks and distancing and actually get around to learning the japanese names for the techniques and kata...