Day 11

Ah, yes, Tuesday.  This is the "long" day, even outside of the Cycle.  Today I got a bunch of work done for work and finished up my physical requirements before we headed down to the dojang.  I helped with class, then took color belt class, and then we had PMAA.  Master Evins is focusing primarily on kicks this week as review so we got paired up and the Bo-Chos got to start working on their hurricane back kicks.  I'm often reminded that I wish I had started this when I were younger and it was easier to do things but that just makes me relish the fact that we did start when we did and we're still active.  As Master Weeks often says, it's better to hurt from doing martial arts than to hurt just from trying to get up off the couch.  Then after PMAA, I worked with my mentee some more and got him caught up on his self defenses.

After class we came home and, since she had more done than I did, Gabe made dinner while I worked on self defenses.  Then after dinner we did some weapons forms and decided to call it night.