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Date: 12 December 2005 22:12:05
I'm a computer geek, I'm not supposed to be doing all this exercise stuff.
Spent a fair bit of the weekend doing martial arts stuff. Had my first ever taijutsu grading on Saturday, which I managed to pass, so I'm now officially a white belt (you have to earn your white belt in this club, rather than getting it automatically when you join). Was also a kickboxing grading the previous weekend, am now white belt in that as well. They were both quite demanding. I found the kickboxing one to be far harder physically, as it was almost three hours long and involved a lot of continuous activity. The taijutsu one was far harder from a technical and mental point of view, as the techniques were more complicated and varied.
Class on Sunday was supposed to be kickboxing, but we did kung-fu instead, just to do something different for the last class before Christmas. Pretty interesting, never done that before. It's quite different to what we normally do, is a Chinese art rather than Japanese, and relies on different skills.
Tonight, have just been climbing at Leeds Wall with Alison. Never done it before. Didn't want to climb too high, but she made me go all the way to the top. I'm absolutely terrified of heights, but I managed to get up there, even if I was shaking like a leaf when I got my feet back on the ground. She was very patient with me, don't think she'll want to take me too often though. But I enjoyed it. Tried some bouldering afterwards, which I liked better (partly because it was closer to the ground). Wouldn't mind doing that again, with proper climbing shoes. Don't think I'll ever make a mountaineer though.