Finished the 4th week which was Self Defense on Thursday. Got a 100 on my written test which is very surprising. Not because I knew the answers but because the fact that I was still able to lift my arms up and grasp a pencil.

The first 1/2 day was fine on Monday. Woke up Tuesday and thought “Hey.. I’m not sore.. what’s all the fuss about?” After the 9 hours of constant 85 degree sweatbox and getting thrown to the mat and torqued with Ikkyo choke from behinds and Ikkyo knife thrusts to the stomach about 30-40 times a technique.. well.. it sucked. I woke up Wednesday morning to some ache. No.. not ache.. P A I N. My neck hurt. My shoulder hurt. Hell.. My ass hurt.

Wednesday also brought us to “The Snake.” The snake is a teamwork building exercise where the entire class (35 of us) lay down on our stomachs holding the feet of the person in front of you. Now, you must stay with your stomach to the mat and maneuver through a course of pads. The course went from the sides to the middle to the sides back to the middle to the other side and so on and so on. Once you reached the end you could stand up. The kicker here is that if anyone touched a pad or let go of the person in front of them, EVERYONE in the snake in front of them had to go to the back of the line and begin again. It took us 3 hours. Can you say tired? We can. Hoorah class W070907!

Really enjoyed the instructors. We learned some extra stuff that we weren’t tested on that was pretty cool! All in All, Self Defense week was great. Good work out, sweat like a dog, and learned a few things. Thank god it is over!