T.F.I Friday!

Being on the early shift today automatically i loose out on squad training. Which blows to put it mildly. The 'day job' really messes with a budding martial artist desire to improve. One day this year with out a doubt i will remove this burden from my life. Todays stint at work as made me even more determined to get out of my job. Making mistakes and being made (mostly by myself but but others as well) to feel like an idiot as well as feeling stressed and bored beyond belief demonstrated to me that menatlly i cannot go through another summer of this. Traditionally the summer months are by far the busiest periods in the construction industry calendar and having done 2 years worth in my current position already, i'm simply not prepared to go through a third. I need to pull my socks up and get out of here!

To unwind the Friday gym session was the traditional trip to the steam room and sauna. To relax my acing muscles from Thursday night and just spend 5 minutes in my life actually doing 'nothing'. What a joy!

Being Friday its back to Tae Kwon Do in the evening and having not been for two weeks i get the usual 'frosty' reception. Its a combination of pleased to see you and also 'where the hell have you been' but rolled into "hi Steve". Its good to be back though, despite the kids acting up at times and not always getting a great deal done. Unlike the Stealth Black Belt Academy, where the classes are 45 mins of action packed exercise and drills. TKD is a slow and steady affair where in 2 hrs we get the same amount done as a typical Stealth 45 minutes but with a more in depth look at technique and a lot of chatting. tut tut

This evening was a typical class and we worked on a whole range of things. These days only training once a week and missing two weeks my patterns have already gone fuzzy round the edges. A bit of Mr sheen is in order to polish out the rough bits.