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I went home for lunch and had some more of that soup. With sourdough bread. Ahh.
I also watched the rest of Mortal Kombat. Johnny Cage and Liu Kang both got to fight a bunch of times but Sonja only got to fight once. I'd forgotten about that. Dangit.
It was nice to see a martial arts movie without wire stunts. Even a cheesy, horribly acted one like Mortal Kombat is preferable to something with excessive use of wire stunts.
Every time I see a movie with martial arts, I think I should go back to TKD and at least get my black belt. I'm a year away from it at this point (though that doesn't mean as much in TKD as in other martial arts - it only takes 3 years, which is relatively quick.) Since my job's moving in a week or so, I can finally officially quit and stop getting billed every month. And at the same time, I'll ask for my red belt, since they never gave it to me. They'd better, because I passed the test and paid the testing fee and part of the fee covers the cost of the belt.
The trouble with taking it up again is that I can't stick to a schedule. It has to be something like these classes at the gym, where I can show up whenever I feel like it, and take a week or two off if I need to without having to worry about falling behind. I'm thinking if I can find a gym where they do kickboxing (like, real, competitive kickboxing, not this aerobics stuff at 24 Hour Fitness, which is fun but isn't really helping me improve my technique or anything), that'd be good. J. at work does aikido and he's offered to bring me along for a class. I just don't know if aikido's my thing. There is one huge benefit to doing aikido: you can use it to defend yourself without injuring anyone or escalating the situation. You can't really do that with TKD - if you use TKD to defend yourself, you're going to hurt someone. I guess the ideal would be knowing both. And it seems like at this aikido place, they don't have a rigid schedule like they do at most TKD schools.
Another alternative is just finding another TKD school (but starting at red belt - I'm not starting over at white belt again), just to get my black belt. Maybe I could find one that's more flexible.
I could probably get away with sticking around at my current school and hardly ever showing up, just long enough to get my black belt. It wouldn't take me too long to refresh my memory of my forms (I can do that on my own time) and I'm in, if anything, better condition than I was back when I was showing up for class. I just don't know.
I also watched the rest of Mortal Kombat. Johnny Cage and Liu Kang both got to fight a bunch of times but Sonja only got to fight once. I'd forgotten about that. Dangit.
It was nice to see a martial arts movie without wire stunts. Even a cheesy, horribly acted one like Mortal Kombat is preferable to something with excessive use of wire stunts.
Every time I see a movie with martial arts, I think I should go back to TKD and at least get my black belt. I'm a year away from it at this point (though that doesn't mean as much in TKD as in other martial arts - it only takes 3 years, which is relatively quick.) Since my job's moving in a week or so, I can finally officially quit and stop getting billed every month. And at the same time, I'll ask for my red belt, since they never gave it to me. They'd better, because I passed the test and paid the testing fee and part of the fee covers the cost of the belt.
The trouble with taking it up again is that I can't stick to a schedule. It has to be something like these classes at the gym, where I can show up whenever I feel like it, and take a week or two off if I need to without having to worry about falling behind. I'm thinking if I can find a gym where they do kickboxing (like, real, competitive kickboxing, not this aerobics stuff at 24 Hour Fitness, which is fun but isn't really helping me improve my technique or anything), that'd be good. J. at work does aikido and he's offered to bring me along for a class. I just don't know if aikido's my thing. There is one huge benefit to doing aikido: you can use it to defend yourself without injuring anyone or escalating the situation. You can't really do that with TKD - if you use TKD to defend yourself, you're going to hurt someone. I guess the ideal would be knowing both. And it seems like at this aikido place, they don't have a rigid schedule like they do at most TKD schools.
Another alternative is just finding another TKD school (but starting at red belt - I'm not starting over at white belt again), just to get my black belt. Maybe I could find one that's more flexible.
I could probably get away with sticking around at my current school and hardly ever showing up, just long enough to get my black belt. It wouldn't take me too long to refresh my memory of my forms (I can do that on my own time) and I'm in, if anything, better condition than I was back when I was showing up for class. I just don't know.