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Oct. 3rd, 2003 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWell, this morning is shaping up to be a decent one. It's cold out, but the skies are clear and I have a sweatshirt on, plus I've got a pair of fingerless gloves that I made in Alaska. I can wear those until the office warms up. I left the book with the hat pattern I was working on at home by mistake, so lunchtime knitting may not go quite as smoothly as planned, but I think I can manage there. The Amazon payments I was waiting for (I sold several of my books that I'd only really read once) hit my bank account last night, so I can safely get an obligation or two out of the way. About the only big thing to fret about at this point is my car, which seems to have developed a small drip in addition to the clackety-clackety noises from the back. I'll have that checked out as soon as I get paid again.
But enough of the banal.
Last night's karate lesson went awfully well, I thought. The instructor's started me on a new kata whose name I couldn't spell if you paid me- I believe it's 'seiyuchin', although I've never seen the name in print and so could not say. Og only gaijin caveman, sorry. Anyway, the opening sequences of this particular kata seem to be easier for me to remember than the initial part of seizan (sp.?), which was a big part of what we had to learn to go from yellow to orange belt. Seiyuchin forms the major portion of the test to go from orange to blue, so I have about a year to learn it properly if the two blue belts in our class are anything to go by. Still got to keep practicing seizan, though, since the other big portion of the blue belt test is seizan applications (someone comes up to you and attempts to hit you while you are performing the kata, and your performance thereof blocks him/her and/or hits them instead).
That part's a little freaky. Not because of doing it with someone else, but because we have a few men in our class who just made yellow belt around the time this past August when I made orange. When I was eight, I forgot how to ride a bike over the winter, and had to be re-taught in spring. When I was on the track team, I ran the 400m, the 800m, and the 300m intermediate hurdles; no one, myself and the coach included, wanted to see me try to deal with the 110m high hurdles. It took me a good chunk of time to learn the basics of archery, although I did manage to achieve what the bowhunters at the local archery range say is good form. I'm good at simple physical things, like running a long way or swimming in a straight line. The more intricate things don't really sink in without a truckload of effort. The idea that I might be better at something like our school of karate than other people - even though I intellectually know I've been taking the classes at least half a year longer than them - is kind of mind-boggling. The yellow belts in my class have learned about half of seizan. Being able to stop what I"m doing and demonstrate the kata for them - correctly - is very, very weird. These are men, and they're older than me, and I'm still better at it? Buh?
Yeah, I know I have a head start on them and that's the major reason why, but still: buh?
But enough of the banal.
Last night's karate lesson went awfully well, I thought. The instructor's started me on a new kata whose name I couldn't spell if you paid me- I believe it's 'seiyuchin', although I've never seen the name in print and so could not say. Og only gaijin caveman, sorry. Anyway, the opening sequences of this particular kata seem to be easier for me to remember than the initial part of seizan (sp.?), which was a big part of what we had to learn to go from yellow to orange belt. Seiyuchin forms the major portion of the test to go from orange to blue, so I have about a year to learn it properly if the two blue belts in our class are anything to go by. Still got to keep practicing seizan, though, since the other big portion of the blue belt test is seizan applications (someone comes up to you and attempts to hit you while you are performing the kata, and your performance thereof blocks him/her and/or hits them instead).
That part's a little freaky. Not because of doing it with someone else, but because we have a few men in our class who just made yellow belt around the time this past August when I made orange. When I was eight, I forgot how to ride a bike over the winter, and had to be re-taught in spring. When I was on the track team, I ran the 400m, the 800m, and the 300m intermediate hurdles; no one, myself and the coach included, wanted to see me try to deal with the 110m high hurdles. It took me a good chunk of time to learn the basics of archery, although I did manage to achieve what the bowhunters at the local archery range say is good form. I'm good at simple physical things, like running a long way or swimming in a straight line. The more intricate things don't really sink in without a truckload of effort. The idea that I might be better at something like our school of karate than other people - even though I intellectually know I've been taking the classes at least half a year longer than them - is kind of mind-boggling. The yellow belts in my class have learned about half of seizan. Being able to stop what I"m doing and demonstrate the kata for them - correctly - is very, very weird. These are men, and they're older than me, and I'm still better at it? Buh?
Yeah, I know I have a head start on them and that's the major reason why, but still: buh?
