karate, Bridget Jone's Diary, life

I started reading Bridget Jone's Diary this morning since I picked it up cheap in a charity shop. It's a really fast read since I'm only half way through and I only read for about two hours. I'm not all that impressed with it actually, though I think it's a lot less like Pride and Prejudice in book form.

This afternoon I felt headache-less enough to go to karate, which was mostly a good thing. The first orange belt I trained with was annoying. He didn't know how to punch, and then claimed I wasn't throwing him properly when we were doing hip throws, when in truth, I was throwing him perfectly, he was simply really worried about being thrown and doing stupid things like sticking the wrong hand out and catching himself (a very good way to break your wrist in a real fight). If you're not comfortable with being thrown, you ask your partner not to throw you, not accuse them of doing it completely wrong. Other than that it was fine and a good work out, though I'll be happy if we continue to spend less and less time on katas as things go on since I consider them relatively useless.

Of course, the price I paid was that my knee was back to twinging again. trip up Arthur's Seat seems to have given it a few large and painful bruises I hadn't noticed before, but as on Sunday, soaking the knee (and the other one since that one's twinging from karate) has caused it to mostly stop, which is good since I'm going bowling with AASOC in a few hours.

karate, Bridget Jone's Diary, life

I started reading Bridget Jone's Diary this morning since I picked it up cheap in a charity shop. It's a really fast read since I'm only half way through and I only read for about two hours. I'm not all that impressed with it actually, though I think it's a lot less like Pride and Prejudice in book form.

This afternoon I felt headache-less enough to go to karate, which was mostly a good thing. The first orange belt I trained with was annoying. He didn't know how to punch, and then claimed I wasn't throwing him properly when we were doing hip throws, when in truth, I was throwing him perfectly, he was simply really worried about being thrown and doing stupid things like sticking the wrong hand out and catching himself (a very good way to break your wrist in a real fight). If you're not comfortable with being thrown, you ask your partner not to throw you, not accuse them of doing it completely wrong. Other than that it was fine and a good work out, though I'll be happy if we continue to spend less and less time on katas as things go on since I consider them relatively useless.

Of course, the price I paid was that my knee was back to twinging again. trip up Arthur's Seat seems to have given it a few large and painful bruises I hadn't noticed before, but as on Sunday, soaking the knee (and the other one since that one's twinging from karate) has caused it to mostly stop, which is good since I'm going bowling with AASOC in a few hours.