22nd Day of Training...Frustration with my bending.
Today was raining most of the day again. In the morning, there wasn't any rain, but it was quite overcast. Somewhere in the middle of morning practice, it started raining. I was really tight this morning. Its been really cold the past couple days and all I have are shorts and a t-shirts. I need to buy pants and a sweatshirt today. This is getting ridiculous. Josh wasn't doing well either, he wasn't feeling very good. The morning practice was mostly just conditioning today.
Near the end of practice though, some chinese guys came in with video cameras and wanted to watch the gweilos practice gong fu. So Josh was doing some saber stuff and I fumbled my Meteor Hammer routines. I mean, I didn't feel as though they were watching me, nor was i trying to perform, i just couldn't do anything right. I didn't know what was wrong. And then Andy Sifu was like, "Ah, terrible." I was like, "Thanks for the vote of confidence, pal."
After the camera folks left, I practiced Meteor Hammer on my own and i was doing better. Go figure.
Lunch was lunch. Was quite tired.
Right before afternoon practice I went to the shop that sells the Tagou uniform. I picked up some pants and the "jumper" as the british call it. The zip up sweatshirt. Its itchy. Maybe it just needs to be washed. It did keep me warm though. It took me awhile to get it because the little room was packed and the people behind the counter were lazy and not doing their jobs. And there was this little nasty man in front of me with overgrown fingernails, all dirty of course, and he was the only one smoking a cigarette and annoying a couple kids with it as well, I wanted to punch him in the face. Try to clean yourself up a little, it would be nicer on all of us.
Afternoon practice was frustrating. I spent most of the time on Zui Quan, but it was tuff because Happy Sifu kept wanting me to do things that I can't possible do because I can't bend backwards like that yet. So I was very frustrated with myself. He was joking as he stated the obvious, "Phil, you are so stiff!"
Thank you, Capt. Obvious.
So I ended practice reviewing the staff forms that I know.
After practice, had some dinner while chilling until the showers gave us hot water.
Nice hot shower.
Then computer work.
Goodnite. Time to sleep. Later