OK so it has been officially announced that the belt test is going to be on Wednesday. Almost all of class sucked today. It was a practice test so we were all gi'd up, we went over all of the strikes, and stances. We practiced all of the Aikido and BJJ portions and then once we were finished with all of the yellow belt portion I was paired off with another white belt and we drilled ippons and the triangle from guard for what felt like forty minutes of getting beat up, or triangled. Then we were told to drill the Ikkyo for most of the rest of the class. I was exhausted covered in sweat and bored. Then the instructor came over and told us that we were looking allot better and we were just polishing some things before the test and he was confident everything would be fine. That baby pep talk changed my entire mood. I was excited to drill the same boring things we had been doing for over an hour and I found my thoughts changing from, have I gotten bored with this should I quite to OK I can't wait to get Wednesday over so I can start working on my next set of belt requirements.
I feel pretty confident with everything except for performing side rolls. I am still a bit gun shy. Not too long ago I injured both my shoulders doing side rolls and I couldn't go to class for over a week. I actually couldn't lift my toothbrush I had to bend my elbow and lower my head to the brush. That happened because we were being shown some break falling for higher level techniques and I was to stupid to say hold on a second I don't quite understand. So here I am with my arm cocked funny by the instructor who is telling me to now just put my arm through and roll. We had been doing these rolls for probably half the class by now and my brain all of a sudden had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I didn't know which arm was supposed to move so I just kinda rolled and hurt my left shoulder. It bugged me a bit during class but I toughed it out even though it was slowly hurting more and more as time went on. we ended class with a few more side rolls this time for whatever reason when I rolled my elbow hit the ground and instead of keeping a stiff arm and rolling, my arm collapsed and slammed my right shoulder to the mat and my momentum just kinda flopped me over. That instantly caused a lot of pain and even though I tried to hide it my eyes well up and I though I might have just broken a bone I acted like everything was cool. The next student rolled and I don't think anyone noticed I damn near cried. The instructor asked if I was OK and I waved it off telling everyone I was fine. I also ate ibuprofen like they were M&M's for the next week. I haven't really side rolled since then and I am a bit nervous. but we will see how things go.
No comments:
Post a Comment