I got new shoes on Saturday.

I wore them to work on Monday and by Tuesday my knee was swollen.  So I muscled through it and went to the dojo.

That was dumb. 

My knee BLEW up…  and I couldn’t train last night.

Sucks sitting on the floor, watching everyone else practice.

Omg.. it was so funny!

We were praticing Front Kick to Chest and we were supposed to target the knot of the belt of the person we were practicing with. 

I did ok.. I was so careful to try and extend my foot that I was going too slow and not really snapping my leg out there.

My partner did better, but she didn’t extend her toes out so she kept missing.

Sensei demonstrated on me.  Tap .. tap.. tap.. the ball of his foot tapping my belt.  Fine, no problem..

Then he says “And then if you want to extend”.

BAM!  He kicked me!   Not hard.. but hard enough to knock me back a foot. 

I grunted like a pig and then cracked up.. 

(but I can see where he could really really hurt a person)

I’ve missed a lot of karate lately.  Which sucks. 

I had class on Tuesday but I missed it due to a lovely stomach bug that left me afraid to walk more than 5 feet from the bathroom…  you don’t want anymore details than that.

And I lied to Sensei.. I couldnt’ quite bring myself to share that piece of information (but I’ll post it here for the world to see.. imagine..)

So, Wednesday, I stretched out at home and did a little warm up.. a few punches etc etc.   I noticed (because I had time to notice) that a lot of things that were a struggle for me in January, no longer are.  I can get REALLY low on many of my stretches and I have something resembling a muscle forming on my forearms.. Shocking!

This morning I put on a pair of pants I’ve not had on since last summer. 

They are too big.

I mean WAY too big.

Like I can pull them down over my hips and back up again.

holy crap.

I feel so awesome!

I have an anti spam thingy on this blog and have upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and yet.. there they are…

Must contemplate course of action.