Spear Training - Kung Fu class #4

I could have gone to the mountain today, I didn't.

I drove to Kung Fu for the noon o'clock class and waited in the lobby with my new friends. The assistant teacher Sean, who knows of my Korra enterprise, excitedly asked me "Did you see the season premiere of Legend of Korra last night?" Um, "No I don't watch TV, I didn't even know it was on." Haha, so much for being super committed lol.

I was excited when we went into class and the Sifu told us each to get a spear. In my head I'm thinking, "Yeeeeaaaaah, this is so sweet. This is like hunger games training too."

Spear training is not fun though.

 Especially if you have short little arms. And after holding the spear for a couple of minutes I decided that they should not have given me something potentially dangerous (ok the tip was dull but still) to twirl around and jab. I should have just gone for one of the sticks.

You have to hold the butt of the spear with your left hand, and you move the spear by isolating your arms from the elbow down.  The Sifu explained, that by limiting the range of movement this helps to eliminate variables in movement and keep things clean and consistent.

I've never been much of a spear person, and am even more so not a spear person after today. I've always fancied more sword-like weapons.

I decided to stay for the Kung Fu Fitness class afterwards. Now Fitness is a special word. When I think/hear of the word "Fitness" I think of the Nelly Furtado song that has the line "just working on my fitness." Fitness to me implies, mom mid thirties, on the elliptical "just working on her fitness," selfie photo with that line post work out.

So to call what I endured for an hour and a half, fitness, is really not touching on what went on.

We started off with sort of a leap frog exercise, except you had to bunny hop over the people. This was terrible and I was soaked through my clothes after one turn down the line.  This was followed by kicks, start one right, one left, two right, two left, all the way up to 15 right, 15 left, then again in descending order. I jammed at the next exercising a moving plank/crab walk. This craziness went on for a good while, and they brought a monster truck tire for us to jump on... they had us compete for times and reps, and losers had to do some awful set of exercises. I kept losing because it was my first day, and I was just a little slow.

If  could do Kung Fu and Fitness every day, I would be so ripped and awesome.