Your orange-drink karate, or whatever.
So said one of the NJ friends when I first typed about it in the WoW party chat.
This weekend (since everyone totally cares!), I took a Tang Soo Do belt test for the rank of 1st gup... which is very, very close to blue belt (which is basically our black belt). I was super, super nervous, especially seeing as I hadn't really tested since January. Believe it or not, that is a huge contributing factor to the exact amount of the feeling. See, the entire 6-7 months are spent working towards this one little thing, and you just really feel the pressure to have visibly improved in that time.
According to my rather biased parents and my sister who's potentially biased the opposite way, however, I did show this improvement. So hopes are high. Ah... but there's always a problem to arise in these, and this test decided to make that breaking.
I haven't broken anything since my first Tang Soo Do test two years ago. That was a step-side kick on a single board. This was any two-station break with four or more boards (meaning: two different techniques, with either two on both or three on one). I pretty much completely failed on that. The first technique--a hammer-fist--I just probably am not strong enough for that, but the second... I know I could have broken them both. But I didn't. My stupid brain got in the way and told me to not try to go through (brains do that. It's the same thing that makes you overcompensate for recoil when shooting and the like. Just needs to be trained out of you.). So I got to do a different break with one board each, which I eventually kind of got... at least there was mad-crazy determination there.
So that was a fun part of my weekend, and I plan to spend all day tomorrow doing absolutely nothing so my muscles can heal. Therefore, I'll probably post something interesting. Until then, here's one of those songs which I feel really awkward singing along with (along with which I feel really awkward singing? Ugh... grammar!), but just can't help it. At least it's not I Kissed a Girl.
This weekend (since everyone totally cares!), I took a Tang Soo Do belt test for the rank of 1st gup... which is very, very close to blue belt (which is basically our black belt). I was super, super nervous, especially seeing as I hadn't really tested since January. Believe it or not, that is a huge contributing factor to the exact amount of the feeling. See, the entire 6-7 months are spent working towards this one little thing, and you just really feel the pressure to have visibly improved in that time.
According to my rather biased parents and my sister who's potentially biased the opposite way, however, I did show this improvement. So hopes are high. Ah... but there's always a problem to arise in these, and this test decided to make that breaking.
I haven't broken anything since my first Tang Soo Do test two years ago. That was a step-side kick on a single board. This was any two-station break with four or more boards (meaning: two different techniques, with either two on both or three on one). I pretty much completely failed on that. The first technique--a hammer-fist--I just probably am not strong enough for that, but the second... I know I could have broken them both. But I didn't. My stupid brain got in the way and told me to not try to go through (brains do that. It's the same thing that makes you overcompensate for recoil when shooting and the like. Just needs to be trained out of you.). So I got to do a different break with one board each, which I eventually kind of got... at least there was mad-crazy determination there.
So that was a fun part of my weekend, and I plan to spend all day tomorrow doing absolutely nothing so my muscles can heal. Therefore, I'll probably post something interesting. Until then, here's one of those songs which I feel really awkward singing along with (along with which I feel really awkward singing? Ugh... grammar!), but just can't help it. At least it's not I Kissed a Girl.
