More Test Practice

Today we did some more work to further refine our techniques for testing. We started with working on our strikes by hitting punching bags. It is surprising how much you can take out on one of those things and it never cares when you hit it.

After that we worked on our forms, I went as far as I knew then had to stand in Horse Stance for the remainder of the form while the higher belts finished off their section of it.

Next came stances, I had to stand in Cat Stance while the remainder of the class went on with their stances.

Then we did Defenses. I more or less practiced Deflecting Hammer on a punching bag. Elbow strikes as hard as I could on it. It was incredibly relieving hitting it so hard. That is the only thing I really have to tweak the most for the test, it's the one defense I usually screw up or don't get completely correctly. After I got it pretty solid, my instructor asked if there was anything else I felt weak about and I said no. So he let me just do whatever for the last few minutes. So I practiced Deflecting Hammer some more on the bag.

Overall it was a good physical class today. Even though I didn't hit anything other than a punching bag.

That's pretty much it for tonight, farewell all.

-Steve