Last class of 2013 was last night. There were only a few people there so Sifu Playter asked us what we wanted to do and we ended up doing some bag work. I really enjoy bag work because of the practical application. It's also a good way to release some pent up aggression that I seem to have from driving around at this time of year. Whenever we do bag work my legs are always really tired the next day. I need to get used to the impact of kicking something physical. I also need to toughen up my hands as I break the skin on my knuckles every time. I'm not sure why, but I seem to be the only one in class that ends up bleeding. The positive is that I can see where on my fists I'm making my impact and it's on the first two knuckles only, which is correct. I'm going to have to get a heavy bag for use at home, although I'm not quite sure yet where I'll put it.
Sifu Playter also had us go through some volume exercises with our kicks and she was telling us about some kick requirements for black belt grading, just to get us thinking about it. After hearing this I was glad that I made performing 25,000 kicks one of my I Ho Chuan requirements for next year. All in all it was a fun class and a good way to end 2013, although practice will continue as usual.
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