T Minus One Day
May. 5th, 2016 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedPoking my head up briefly from packing to get ready for my Power Weekend black belt test.
I've survived the training, the pre-tests, and the 25 km walk (which I only did 15 km of in a bid not to blow out my knees ahead of the main event). I've bonded with my training mates, especially the other three women doing their first degrees. I've choreographed my musical form and put together a costume for it: black silk Chinese jacket, black footless tights with gold laces, and cute little flippy skirt. (Ros informed me that one of the rejected costumes, the jacket with a pair of blue starscape leggings, looked like something Mark Owen would wear. Which made me tempted to give it a go. *g*) I've learned all my open hand forms, my weapons forms (like the bo; still hate the nunchucks), and my self-defence moves (I just tested one on the Sweetie a little more vigorously than I should have, and hey, it worked!). I'm as ready as I'm going to be.
After this weekend, there are still five weeks of rehearsals for the Black Belt Spectacular where we all officially get our belts, but the most intense part of the training cycle will be over.
I'm excited and nervous and looking forward to the experience. And my mantra for the whole this is two words: NO INJURIES!
See you on the flip side!
I've survived the training, the pre-tests, and the 25 km walk (which I only did 15 km of in a bid not to blow out my knees ahead of the main event). I've bonded with my training mates, especially the other three women doing their first degrees. I've choreographed my musical form and put together a costume for it: black silk Chinese jacket, black footless tights with gold laces, and cute little flippy skirt. (Ros informed me that one of the rejected costumes, the jacket with a pair of blue starscape leggings, looked like something Mark Owen would wear. Which made me tempted to give it a go. *g*) I've learned all my open hand forms, my weapons forms (like the bo; still hate the nunchucks), and my self-defence moves (I just tested one on the Sweetie a little more vigorously than I should have, and hey, it worked!). I'm as ready as I'm going to be.
After this weekend, there are still five weeks of rehearsals for the Black Belt Spectacular where we all officially get our belts, but the most intense part of the training cycle will be over.
I'm excited and nervous and looking forward to the experience. And my mantra for the whole this is two words: NO INJURIES!
See you on the flip side!
