The sun is shining, the weather is sweet
make you want to move, your dancing feet
but to the rescue, 'ere I am...
That song has been in my mind all the day so I finally played it for myself. The sun has literally come to the rescue of my sanity. The holidays were really wet in SF and combined with much celebrating it left me feeling gloomy. But the last in a series of storms passed last night, so I'm able to ride my bicycle again and generally be outside more.
My new year's resolution is to get in a fight, preferrably in some organized sparring event or competition. Not getting my assed kicked I figure would be a good incentive to get in shape and to improve my kung fu. I'm planning on checking out an open sparring night as soon as this friday, and another on saturday.
make you want to move, your dancing feet
but to the rescue, 'ere I am...
That song has been in my mind all the day so I finally played it for myself. The sun has literally come to the rescue of my sanity. The holidays were really wet in SF and combined with much celebrating it left me feeling gloomy. But the last in a series of storms passed last night, so I'm able to ride my bicycle again and generally be outside more.
My new year's resolution is to get in a fight, preferrably in some organized sparring event or competition. Not getting my assed kicked I figure would be a good incentive to get in shape and to improve my kung fu. I'm planning on checking out an open sparring night as soon as this friday, and another on saturday.
- Current Mood:
cheerful - Current Music:Bob Marley - Sun is Shining
Comments
*hurts self*
Well, shit.
Are you planning to spar on Friday, or just watch? (How does one jump into something like that? Do you need to be a registered sparrer or is it like open mic night where anybody can walk up and get pummelled? I have many questions.)
I think how it works is that you decide the rules you want to fight by and then find someone else who is willing to fight by the same rules. You can agree on intensity, level of contact, ground-fighting or not, takedowns or not and what sort of attacks and parts of your body are off limits. Most mixed martial arts fights like cage and pride fighting have some rules to protect people from serious injury and to also make the fights more interesting.
On saturday the sparring session is being organized by someone in my class and will have mostly people I know there. That should be fun as I'll be on more familiar ground.