Back to the Mat

For those who don't know, I had surgery on my foot almost six weeks ago to remove bone spurs and bone fragments from the ball joint. I truly missed my martial arts classes, and I have to say I am very excited to be back at it!

So, in coming back we have some new classes. There is a forms class (which I am helping to teach) that is a lot of fun. We are working on forms we've learned, and learning new forms from Kenpo and Shotokan Karate. It's very cool to study in a system that doesn't just focus on one style, but takes input from any and all styles.

We also have a kicking class. That's right, an hour straight of just kicking. Today, with only a couple of minutes left in the class we had to do 50 round kicks on each leg as quickly as we could. Man am I slow!

We also have grappling class and weapons class as specialized classes. I'll be honest, grappling is not my best thing, but I want to be a complete martial artist (at least for me, this isn't to say if you study something that doesn't have grappling you aren't complete) so I have to work on it.

My biggest challenge doesn't even occur in the dojo, it's finding time to do what I love. But if everything in life were easy, I think I wouldn't do anything at all.