cobra

Learned this new move in body combat class yesterday: the "cobra" move, from kung fu.  neat.  in the middle of a mix of butt-kicking squats & lunges, all choreographed into a smooth mix of various fighter moves and poses.  ouch.

Robb started the class by addressing the Very Large Typical January New Resolution crowd and telling us to leave space for the people around us.  He told us that the only person who has an assigned spot in this room is him, the instructor.  Then he added that if we wanted to jump through the hoops of becoming a certified instructor, then we could have our assigned spot, too.  At the front of the class.  He's thrown that sort of little "bug in the ear" kind of thing out now & then lately, and I always feel like he's talking right at me.  Perhaps it's a God thing, because I often feel like that in church, too, when someone's message is being directed right at me.  I'm really hearing it lately, guess I must be cleaning my ears better these days or something..   hold that thought... (the instructor thing, not the earwax...) :-D

Some good tracks in the mix today... including some favorites, like Muay Thai.  I get the giggles again when that song plays that goes, "work that body..." and it keeps going "ahhh"..."ahhh"... and that's when Robb jumps on that and mimics it and I can't keep a straight face any longer and crack up.  I'm usually very serious, quiet and intense in that class, I'm always trying to focus on getting my form just right.  I'm not just here for a good work-out, I'm serious about learning this and excelling at it.  not sure why.  either to fight or to teach it myself, not sure...

so the muay thai... there's a lot of it, in at least two different songs.  One of them has the repeated muay thai block with the hands, which he describes is like a "peek-a-boo".  makes me laugh.   The heaviest muay thai song is my favorite, the song "Speed" again.   The Group Fitness Director is taking class today, and it's her birthday so she's requested this one, the "street fighter" song, as she puts it.  oh yeah....  street fight punches, wild-crazy-elbow strikes, ramping up into the craziest flying elbow strikes ever!!!  I am so loving this!!!!!!  I think we had the best class participation ever on the yelling in this one, on the flying/jumping elbow strikes, we were all like, "SPEED!!!!  SPEED!!!! SPEED!!! SPEED!!!" and "hooAAAHHH!!!" "HOOAAAAHHH!!!!"  Killer chicks we are.

It helped that I'd gone to his Tuesday noon class at a different location of this gym.  building up stamina. I think my goal, not a new year's resolution, i don't really do those,  but my goal is to work out, and work out HARD, as in this fighting kind of stuff, up to 5 times a week.  I said "up to".  I cannot reasonably expect to do that all the time, have to balance it with my work schedule and home responsibilities, and at my age, i need to listen to my body, sometimes i just need to rest.  But not too much rest. I'm sure Ronda Rousey never got to where she is by lying on the couch, watching Netflix and eating cheezy popcorn.

 I'm learning what it takes to improve oneself, and I'm determined to do it in my own life and then to move into a role of helping others to do the same.  Whether that means training to be a certified instructor of something like this, i don't know. I'd love for that to happen.  This and/or something really creative, like art therapy, dance, or music..  I think I have a gift for encouraging others and I'd love to use that in combination with my love for fitness/dance/movement and the arts.   I"m excited about the possibilities.

that's all for now.  till we fight again...