Terry went to the doctor and is going to get X-rays. Henry had his bad sneakers, but at least he had sneakers. Avik didn't have sneakers and sat out the practice. I showed the boys feint-attack and made them fence one another. Cal cannot for the life of him make a recognizable lunge. He's cheerful enough and willing to listen, but then he does some kind of bizarre hippity-hop. I asked Andre and Henry to be the captains. Now I have to think of something for the captains to do. ...
So a few weeks ago I was doing a weekend camp with the national coach and a handful of other juniors. It was a good little camp and a lot of fun; however, there was one little problem. I am very inflexible and this new coach is really into stretching. Combine this with the fact that he's a pretty funny, good-natured guy to begin with and he spent a lot of the camp laughing at my inability to touch my toes. I didn't take it personally because it is pretty funny (and sad) how inflexible I am, but ...
I was checking out a kenpo place near my house last night. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, and I'm going to try taking lessons there. The instructor was a nice guy, seemed pretty laid back, but I noticed that his students were a bit uptight about etiquette. "Yes, sir; thank you, sir," etc. He also talked about people that had taught him, and the people that had taught them, etc, always refering to them as "Great Grandmaster," "Grandmaster" or ...
All I want for Christmas is my old, 2006 health back. I don't care about the appearance, I just want the functionality and lack of pain restored. I've been icing the knee as much as possible and I am freezing cold alll the way through. On the plus side, I can now sit back on my heels. I make *justkillmenow* faces while trying to do this but I can touch my heels to my butt if I work at it. The tennis elbow is slowly improving and the right shoulder still aches. ...
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