Taekwondo has had ups and downs for me these six months. The last two weeks have been a down-cycle, with a cold and horrible cough keeping me from being in class and not being able to give 100% when I am there. I’m in this phase of feeling like an awkward 8th-grader. I’ve started something new, something with strict rules and customs and expectations, and it feels like junior high…
Getting jiggly with it
Only a Mr. Ninja would tell me to look at myself in the mirror as I do jumping jacks to see if I’m symmetrical. I mean, I get it the theory. Mr. Ninja wants both my legs the same strength and flexibility, and if that is true then my jumping jacks should be symmetrical. And I am clearly not doing that–after about 150 jumping jacks, my legs stop moving so…
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martial arts–at my age?
I needed something different. We’d just moved from Florida to Colorado and I was invigorated by the dry mountain air. Around here yoga seems to be something you do to complement your climbing/biking/running, and I didn’t find my usual gang of yoga peoples to have class with. Years in the humid, flat swamps had left me sluggish, hesitant to exercise, especially if it meant leaving the A/C). Now living…
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