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stevenpiziks) wrote2008-06-12 08:52 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2008-06-12 08:52 pm
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The Best Part
Wednesday was the best part of summer break--the beginning!
Kala took the boys in to school, and I slept in. Then I took a long bike ride, as I like to do in the mornings before it gets hot. The air smells fine, the temperature is balmy, and far back where I ride, there's no traffic. Everything is green, and I feel like I can go on forever.
Then I did very little of anything. Some puttering around on-line, some video gaming, a bit of writing.
And then Fortis called. Aran was throwing up and someone needed to go get him. Kala went. So much for a day without boys. It was half a day instead.
That evening I went to karate class. I got my green belt and we practiced a whole lot of targeted kicking. Hook kicks, especially. Regular hook kicks. Back hook kicks. Spinning back hook kicks. (To do a hook kick, you stand on one leg, bring the other leg up level with the ground, and bend your knee, creating a sort of sweeping motioni. The idea is to thwack someone with the bottom of your foot.) Toward the end of class, we had what I call a Mr. Miyagi Moment. The instructor took us outside and put us with a partner. The partner held a paper cup of water on the palm of his hand at chest level. The idea was to knock the cup off your partner's hand without touching your partner and, incidentally, get water on the people practicing next to you. It was fun. I was surprised that even though I'm now the lowest-ranked student in the class (as the newest green belt), I was better at it than many of the second- or third degree greens. Go me! :)
And today, my knees were all stiff from the hooks. Ow!
Kala took the boys in to school, and I slept in. Then I took a long bike ride, as I like to do in the mornings before it gets hot. The air smells fine, the temperature is balmy, and far back where I ride, there's no traffic. Everything is green, and I feel like I can go on forever.
Then I did very little of anything. Some puttering around on-line, some video gaming, a bit of writing.
And then Fortis called. Aran was throwing up and someone needed to go get him. Kala went. So much for a day without boys. It was half a day instead.
That evening I went to karate class. I got my green belt and we practiced a whole lot of targeted kicking. Hook kicks, especially. Regular hook kicks. Back hook kicks. Spinning back hook kicks. (To do a hook kick, you stand on one leg, bring the other leg up level with the ground, and bend your knee, creating a sort of sweeping motioni. The idea is to thwack someone with the bottom of your foot.) Toward the end of class, we had what I call a Mr. Miyagi Moment. The instructor took us outside and put us with a partner. The partner held a paper cup of water on the palm of his hand at chest level. The idea was to knock the cup off your partner's hand without touching your partner and, incidentally, get water on the people practicing next to you. It was fun. I was surprised that even though I'm now the lowest-ranked student in the class (as the newest green belt), I was better at it than many of the second- or third degree greens. Go me! :)
And today, my knees were all stiff from the hooks. Ow!