December 2011
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Yay for Kung Fu sparring!
After a challenging day of work, I almost went straight home to recuperate. Thankfully, I forced myself to make it to my 4th night of Kung Fu in a row. And although I was tortured in the first 30 minutes with excruciatingly sore stretching exercises, I was rewarded with the first opportunity to do light sparring in class!
The idea is to go very slowly in your sparring, to get an understanding...
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First night of intermediate kung fu
After getting my orange belt on Monday, I decided to suffer thru my body aches and attend my first intermediate kung fu class offered on Wednesday evenings. Surprisingly, I was a little nervous because I wasn’t sure what to expect. There were only 4 of us in class last night, one green belt and three orange belts. After warm-up, the class broke up into who was focusing on each style,...
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Success - Earned my Orange Belt in Kung Fu!
I’ve been out for the last 1.5 weeks from Kung Fu. The half week was due to my back flaring up in pain again, and then last week was spent on a cruise vacation to the Eastern Caribbean. (Yes, I’m still working on photos.) During that time, I was extremely bummed that I was missing class. I managed to walk a lot while on vacation and hit the gym a couple of times with Ben.
So Monday...
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Back from the Caribbean!
I just returned home from a 7-day Eastern Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas - the largest cruise ship in the world. (Okay, technically her sister ship, the Allure, is slightly bigger, but close enough.) Great vacation overall. Over the next few days, I will be photo editing and documenting some of the highlights and challenges of the cruise. It was a wonderful trip...