timtv

So in class tonight (karate), for the last hour it was three of the adult advanced belt men and myself working on defenses against a rushing attacker. I love it when we do these kind of drills, as it engorges the adrenalin junkie within.

We started out with the attacker lunging in with a punch, and we had to incapacitate them with as few moves as possible. It was fast, furious, focused and intense! Then I told them that they could throw any attack that they wanted. And we took turns doing that for awhile. So great. Since we were on a roll, we moved on to weapons. I gave the attacker a knife, and we had to take it away by whatever means necessary. FUN! It's such a strange thing to be standing with complete relaxed calm one second and then be throwing a man through the air as you scream and crush his throat in the next. I must say, our On/Off switches were working well tonight!

Sometimes practice throws you for a loop and you feel frustrated, weak, sad. It happens all the time. I guess it's nature's way of culling out those who don't have the patience and tempering those who do. But tonight I feel like I could punch through a building.



Now, to go pick a fight with a building...