Donna and I decided to meet early so I could teach her what I learned Thursday and Saturday without her. So, first we did the stances of our new form. It is very confusing and by the end of that Donna was very confused. So next we did the one-step sparring that I learned Saturday. I hate hate hate the third one and I want to skip it. You see, our new one-step sparring includes some flying kicks. No, your eyes aren't playing a trick on you. I did just write 'flying'. Basically for Jumping Front Snap Kick you lift your knee straight up, jump off the ground, and do a front snap kick in the air. It's pretty much the same for Jumping Roundhouse Kick except instead of kick straight, you turn your hip while in the air and kick to the side. Then there's Flying Sidekick. This is the one I hate. In our one-step sparring we have to do a Flying Sidekick. You jump up, tuck your back foot up to your kicking leg, and kick out with a sidekick. I hate it. But I guess practice makes perfect...or close to perfect. Well after that, class started so we headed out onto the mat.
We started off with the traditional warm-up and then went on to the usual front snap kick with double punches-both legs. Then we moved on to 10 continuous roundhouse kicks- nine to the body and the tenth to the face- without putting our foot down. Donna and her son, Mikey, did the demonstration and they both did fantastic. So we did those with both legs and then Master Kim told us to 'copy him'. This is never a good sign. He layed down on the floor with his legs out straight. So we all got down into the same position. Then he told us to tuck our foot and lift our leg as high as we could. We all did it and he got up and began to walk around and tell people to turn their hip. Let me tell you, it was painful. He told us to keep going. We did that for probably at least whole minute (which probably doesnt seem like a lot but it only takes about a second for you to lift and lower your leg). Then we switched sides. I could barely move my hips after those, so when Master Kim said 'waist rotations', I almost died. So after that we faced the mirrors and he said we were going to practice our backicks and spinning kicks. I have never in my life done a spinning kick, so I quickly attracted the attention Miss Hall. I told her I had never done a Spinning kick so she helped me out for a bit. By the time she walked away I was still confused (not that she hadn't done a good job teaching me...just because my brain doesn't work well after we do a few kicks). So then we did 30 sit-ups and 30 push-ups. As soon as I finished, Master Kim shouted '20 more each'. This time me and Donna sort of counted by twos. I did do the push-ups though. Ow. We stood up and practiced some regular sidekicks. Finally, we got our one minute break. I got some water and came back to work on form with Mr. Villafranca. We did the entire form step-by-step. I can barely remember it but that's okay. I guess I'll get to do it again some other time.
So that was my class. Over all it was tough and long, but we accomplished a lot.
Class Highlights:
Funniest Moment: When we were practicing sidekicks, Miss Hall told me to use the 'teeter-totter effect'. I said I had no idea what she was talking about. Then she said, 'You know, when your body goes down your head goes up.' I said 'Yeah...and then I 'totter' over.' We both laughed like crazy.
Most Challenging Thing: Tie between Spinning Kick and learning the new form.
Favourite Part: Learning my new form!
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