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still not got a lift back from whitby on monday. if anyone would like to save me the hell of the coastliner back to leeds AND earn some petrol money on monday afternoon/evening then let me know or I'm on the 6:18 bus!
Our taekwondo instructor appeared to make a pretty concerted effort to kill me and several other pupils last night. Ladder training. sounds so innocent. you probably think it involves running up and down over people's legs. oh no. no.
Ladder training involves 2 paddle holders at either end of the hall, holding paddles crossed for double kicking. inbetween them 4 people bend over in the role of leapfrogee. the poor victim leapfrogs over the 4 and kicks the paddle at the end. they then leapfrog back and kick the paddle at the other end. one. then they leapfrog back and do a double kick (a kind of springing kick not just 2 seperate kicks) and then leapfrog back and do another double kick at the other end. two. leapfrog triple. leapfrog back triple. three. then 5. then 7. then 7 (so that's 4 lots of septupal kicking) then 5, 3, 2, 1 (mmm prime numbers were never so tiring)
I assure you that even if you think it sounds hard it's much harder than you think it sounds. thankfully he set a 3 minute cap on it so I only got to the point of just being about to do the first 3 on the way back down from the 7s. I've had to do the whole lot before now on the summer course - possible with 5 leapfrogees. I think there were tears =P the worse bit is landing heavier and heavier and the poor leapfrogees as you get tired. all of which weighed at least 2 and a half stone less than me and generally were even lighter than that. a couple of the super fit people managed it in the 3 minutes and adam himself has set a record of 2:15 for it a few years back.
I needed my asthma inhailer after that. I hurt today. yes it was only 3 minutes but it was a pretty damn relentless 3 minutes and the sandwich I'd had before training was threatening to make a re-appearence. the rest of the lesson was similarly physical too. how come this shit never makes me fitter?
also it's been confirmed that due to an error on behalf of the events sec at the club I'm now in the team AND individual competitions on Sunday. Adam keeps saying that this is a chance for 2 medals whereas I know it's a chance for 2 pummellings. I'm going to be Sarah Merrick by whitby.
Our taekwondo instructor appeared to make a pretty concerted effort to kill me and several other pupils last night. Ladder training. sounds so innocent. you probably think it involves running up and down over people's legs. oh no. no.
Ladder training involves 2 paddle holders at either end of the hall, holding paddles crossed for double kicking. inbetween them 4 people bend over in the role of leapfrogee. the poor victim leapfrogs over the 4 and kicks the paddle at the end. they then leapfrog back and kick the paddle at the other end. one. then they leapfrog back and do a double kick (a kind of springing kick not just 2 seperate kicks) and then leapfrog back and do another double kick at the other end. two. leapfrog triple. leapfrog back triple. three. then 5. then 7. then 7 (so that's 4 lots of septupal kicking) then 5, 3, 2, 1 (mmm prime numbers were never so tiring)
I assure you that even if you think it sounds hard it's much harder than you think it sounds. thankfully he set a 3 minute cap on it so I only got to the point of just being about to do the first 3 on the way back down from the 7s. I've had to do the whole lot before now on the summer course - possible with 5 leapfrogees. I think there were tears =P the worse bit is landing heavier and heavier and the poor leapfrogees as you get tired. all of which weighed at least 2 and a half stone less than me and generally were even lighter than that. a couple of the super fit people managed it in the 3 minutes and adam himself has set a record of 2:15 for it a few years back.
I needed my asthma inhailer after that. I hurt today. yes it was only 3 minutes but it was a pretty damn relentless 3 minutes and the sandwich I'd had before training was threatening to make a re-appearence. the rest of the lesson was similarly physical too. how come this shit never makes me fitter?
also it's been confirmed that due to an error on behalf of the events sec at the club I'm now in the team AND individual competitions on Sunday. Adam keeps saying that this is a chance for 2 medals whereas I know it's a chance for 2 pummellings. I'm going to be Sarah Merrick by whitby.
