Friday 1st May

Heading into the bank holiday I was on early shift and thus no squad training for me… Shame really haven’t done it for what seems like months. Hit the gym with vengeance at lunch time. Again concentrating on the upper body trying my very best to get some form of armour plate round my torso. I don’t mind admitting this is as much a pride thing as useful tool for defending myself from sparring knocks and bruises as well as Sensei Craig and his need to whack us when we are not looking, usually before class starts.

Polished the day off with 2 hours at TKD. This time round I was asked to take the class for the warm up and stretch. Training with children in the class can prove very challenging, especially with the warm up. One thing that stands the Stealth Black Belt Academies out is our ages specific classes. There are those that argue that 45 minutes 2 or 3 times a week is not enough time to train. Before joining Stealth I would have agreed. However, having been exposed to both ways of doing things 45 minutes is plenty of time if its non stop with an age group with a similar training ethic.