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In Testing
One week to the seminar!
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#243
 03-13-2009 03:04 PM |
Just a scant four more classes, including tonight, until our impending doom - I mean, test. How ready am I? Tough to say. Sensei seems to think so. And our dojo has a policy of not letting you test until you are beyond ready.
We drive out next Friday.
Personally? Well...I feel like:
- my body is well-conditioned
- I have a great nutritional plan (though the foodie in me is absolutely sick of slow cooker turkey and baked salmon and fully intends to celebrate with sushi after all is said and done) - I start the pre-event Creatine tomorrow and intend to carb-load the night before the seminar
- my asthma is under control (and now very little is left of the nagging cough and chest congestion from that cold from weeks ago)
- my post-workout recovery could be better but I'm also planning on increasing my sleep next week
The only thing that remains is to have confidence. That, and run through:
- Jodori
- Hanmi-handachi Ushiro-waza (any 5 techniques)
- 5 Kokyunage (any attacks)
What I really want to do is run through the whole darn thing from start to bitter end to get a feel for the thing, well, as a whole. That would make me feel much better - at least in better knowing the gaps in my memory.
Of course, whether Jeremy and I even test all depends on The Man. Kawahara Shihan will watch us like a hawk during the seminar and determine from what he sees if he wants us to test for Ikkyu there. In other words, I will have to be prepared to practice technique at the seminar as though that itself IS the test.
I will say that it's tough not to be more than a little nervous about it. I can't help but sense the impact we'll have on the reputation of the club, for better or for worse. Especially since the last time someone from the dojo ran a test of this magnitude by Kawahara Sensei. He pretty well promised then and there that his expectations would be far higher in future. I really hope we meet them. Well, no. That's not quite right. What I really want is to exceed them.
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