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Bujinkan this week was kind of meh for me. On Monday, I trained with a woman who used to come regularly but hasn't been there for months due to her job. This invariably meant that her level had gone down, so she was really really frustrated during training. I did my best to be patient and explain things, but it didn't seem to be getting through. Then on Weds. both M. and C. abandoned me *fake tear* so it was up to me to train with the newbie girl. She's not horrible for a beginner, though she needs to really learn to pay attention and observe what Jack and her partner are doing. (I had to remind myself that, yes, I did need to see things several times when I first started training before I got them.) So actually, she's doing really well. It was just kinda tedious demonstrating over and over. So much so that I managed to give myself a repetitive stress injury on my left wrist from repeatedly blocking with it (I can't decide if it's just from the repetition, if I moved the wrist too much when I did it, if I didn't stretch it enough, or all of the above). Luckily, I have ace bandages for pretty much everything and threw on the wrist one when I got home and have been wearing it all today. Hopefully, it's a pulled muscle and not a ligament and it will heal before monday. She also managed to kick me in the big toe and smack my fingers with a hung bo (right where Jack had already smacked them), thus reminding me of the real reason you don't want to train with newbies - you get hurt.
I need to work on my hung bo movements in front of a mirror. I'm raising my shoulder when I strike for some reason. Will try to remedy this at the gym tomorrow if I can remember to bring my hung bo.
This evening I had a one-hour, $1 class called Fitness Anywhere which was totally worth the money, though possibly not worth almost freezing to death waiting for the bus afterwards (NJ weather is out to get me today - I was stuck in traffic from two different accidents and late for class because of it in the morning due to the snow, then it dropped into the 20s this evening and I had to hop three different buses just to get back to my car without freezing in the intervals.) The class was taught by a personal trainer and he went through a bunch of exercises you could do on your own, teaching us proper form and how to adjust their difficulty to suit our tastes. There were a couple of exercises there that I really liked (no one ever taught me the proper way to do a squat before, for example) that I'll incorporate into my exercise routine. I also feel vindicated that he said the best way to exercise is to do it one day, then take the next day off etc, so my M-W-F schedule is just about perfect.
Am still really excited about how my bento turned out, and my mind keeps going crazy thinking of all the cool things I can try. I'm actually disappointed that I'll only be making one a week, and if the postgrad thing works out, I'll totally be making bento all the time for lunch. It's just so much easier to prep. and plan out several bentos in advance rather than make just one (or two in this case since I make one for Dad... Unfortunately, Dad doesn't like plain, white rice so I feel a bit guilty forcing it upon him. I have no idea when *I* started liking plain, white rice, but I blame Japan:P)
Now I must go and study for my Japanese lesson test, and finish catching up on my annual Bleach reading.
I need to work on my hung bo movements in front of a mirror. I'm raising my shoulder when I strike for some reason. Will try to remedy this at the gym tomorrow if I can remember to bring my hung bo.
This evening I had a one-hour, $1 class called Fitness Anywhere which was totally worth the money, though possibly not worth almost freezing to death waiting for the bus afterwards (NJ weather is out to get me today - I was stuck in traffic from two different accidents and late for class because of it in the morning due to the snow, then it dropped into the 20s this evening and I had to hop three different buses just to get back to my car without freezing in the intervals.) The class was taught by a personal trainer and he went through a bunch of exercises you could do on your own, teaching us proper form and how to adjust their difficulty to suit our tastes. There were a couple of exercises there that I really liked (no one ever taught me the proper way to do a squat before, for example) that I'll incorporate into my exercise routine. I also feel vindicated that he said the best way to exercise is to do it one day, then take the next day off etc, so my M-W-F schedule is just about perfect.
Am still really excited about how my bento turned out, and my mind keeps going crazy thinking of all the cool things I can try. I'm actually disappointed that I'll only be making one a week, and if the postgrad thing works out, I'll totally be making bento all the time for lunch. It's just so much easier to prep. and plan out several bentos in advance rather than make just one (or two in this case since I make one for Dad... Unfortunately, Dad doesn't like plain, white rice so I feel a bit guilty forcing it upon him. I have no idea when *I* started liking plain, white rice, but I blame Japan:P)
Now I must go and study for my Japanese lesson test, and finish catching up on my annual Bleach reading.
