Grateful for another day to train

Such an excellent day! Had a break at work mid day and took advantage of open mat. There was a returning black belt (forgot his name) and we reviewed all the color belt poomsaes and solid color self defenses. It was a good review in the dojang without an audience. I'm still getting adjusted to the space (especially when we are facing different ways during the poomsaes). 

Bought a new pair of sneakers. Although it seems old fashioned to call them sneakers these days. The technology that goes into running shoes is no joke. My old shoes have practically fallen apart (the soles have worn down to the secondary color). They were about five years old, well past their prime. Plus after being properly fitted, they were probably all wrong for me. These new shoes feel great. They have some cushion and may help my knees and back. 

Class was awesome, or at least I felt more confident. The mentoring by Instructor Randle and and the encouragements from Instructor Dege and Instructor Weeks help so much. I appreciated Mrs. Neelima's patience with me  as we went through the self defenses. It is alway good to learn with someone.

Although we did not perform well with the last class exercise in self defense, we will do better next time. I did not quite understand what Master Evin's wanted us to do. Lesson learned: next time ask for clarification. Now that I understand, I will do better next time. I do like the concept of getting out of the stiff rote self defense drills. It really is fun. Where is Mr Turner when you really need to take someone down? ;-)