2005 Workout #47-50: I can feel it running down my leg…

I don’t usually like to lump workouts together in more than pairs, but I’m making a special exception this time because these three workouts had exactly the same format: kata, and lots of it.

We’ve (meaning me, instructed by ) been focusing on kata with additional hip action. I really feel like its helping my kata alot and I really wish I had started doing this months ago. Things are locking together, some of my old standby habits are starting to fade. I’m sure they will resurface when the nerves of the exam hit, but for now I can take comfort in the fact that I can do it.

By now you might be wondering about this post’s title… I was doing my kata for about the 50th time in the last three days and I nailed the jump. I mean, NAILED it. Everything was tight, I didn’t swing my leg out, and when I landed I got that nice “just had my car’s suspension repaired” solid landing. By the time I finished the kata, Sensei Hartman was laughing and giving me an OK sign. Then he laughed a little more, and said something to the effect of “that was so sweet, I can feel it running down my leg.”

Yeah, that’s a visual I want.

Either way, I proved that I can do it right once out of 50 or so times, and I guess that’s something. Now if I could only do the same for my other three kata I’m responsible for we’ll be in business.

For the record: working out this intensely is destroying my stabilizing muscles all over my body. I really feel like I’ve got full body whiplash, my knees, shoulders, abs, and butt all feel like the muscles have been quickly snapped stretched and then put right back where they were. I’ve been hitting vitamins and ibuprofin pretty hard as a result.