Missing a friend...

It drives me crazy that I miss my friend i had a crush on from karate. It's his birthday today. I wish I could wish it to his face. And I miss seeing around. he is gone in west to become a RCMP. I know I probably talk to you about him. We flirted sometimes, really wagely, but never did one of us did really make a move on the other.
The last time he was over in town, I've meet him while entering at work. During that evening, we did exhange a few texts. one from him was telling me to meet him. And then, a minute after, he said he was going to bed.
I think, someday, I just have the worse luck with guys.
And to make matters worse, one of my good friend, who is kind of naive, is not single anymore. The one that my best friend and I always make some teasing joke about her not making moves at all on guys. So I guess I'm the only one that is single now on my close circle of friend in town. Which is gonna suck. Being the 5th wheel. It did go with my Best Friend, I was use on her having or not having boyfriends. But I've never even seen this friend frankly flirting with a guy even when it was obvious that some were flirting with her.

Hi

I have to start writting back here! I've been busy with work.
And something new has happen. I did start teaching karate on Tuesday at my anciant High School. I was disapointed that I only had 4 students. We did demonstration on the school, and we had like 80 persons that did show up. And we only have 4 students, with none new! I will see what happen. We will not even run square for the gym at that amoung of person...I'm gonna teach my first real one this Tuesday, since master sensei was there on last one...Hopefully it will work well...

Getting my ass back on track!

So, did I did some exercice this summer? Pretty much done nothing. I didn't have the will-power to do some in my house, and with all the rain we had, I didn't do some bike.
Now, I'm starting karate on Tuesday, and I'm not in shape, stregth wise or cardio wise. I'm starting with the toughest sansei physically. So since last Sunday, I'm trying to kick my ass into working out again. I've been doing half go this week, but a week wouldn't be enough to get me on track... But it is better than going out back being completely out of shape! I will tell you more how it when and I'm feeling on Tuesday or Wednesday!
Wish me luck.

Here goes my reputation

I know that it has been a while since I've talk about karate on here!There hasn't been much improvement on my behalf except one of my stance got way better.
I don't know if I told it to you before, but I'm almost the roughest women in my club. I have the reputation of having strong kicks and not backing up enough.
My sansei and me are always teasing each other...Picking on each other...So last Monday(or the Thursday before that) I said to him, in a joke: "Me and my friend against you". He said : "NO problem". He is really good, even if we are two, we actually cannot get him . He gave me a couple of harsh blocks, but the other woman is not as rough as me, so he said to himself, "I'm gonna go more soft on them". So I was actually able to get into his defense, which I found weird.I was able to get him two or three times.
Before I continue, I have to say to you one thing, since I know that it is so hard to get into his defense, I don't really control my strengh when sparring against him. He usually blocks every single hit that I throw on him.
So since he didn't want to hurt one of us, he did got smoother. One of the hit I was able to get through to him was on the ribcage. Sansei wasn't there on Thursday, i said to myself, it must be that it is snowing. So tonight, while we wait between the adult class and the children one, sansei told me to approch. Another man had a smile on his face. Sansei told me:"You know when we went sparring last pratice I was there?"
-Hum, hum
-You know you kick me?
-Yes, maybe
-You broke/chipped one of my ribs.
-REally?
-Yes!
-I'm sorry...
And you can see during the warm-up than the poor man was in pain...
So here goes my reputation of being rough...It ain't gonna help me...

Thursday Thirteen # 48

Thirteen Things about Jill 13 exercice I did this week 1.Push-ups...Which I still hate after an year and half of karate 2. Wall push-up...I still need to do some arm strenghtening stuff, and this is better than normal push-up 3. Close arm wall push-up...Same as above 4. Lateral arm raise with dumbell...This makes me work out an arm muscle I do work out frenquently 5. Lying abbuction 6. Lying abduction... These last two, I always gt mix up. You are both lying on the floor, one you have one leg lying on the floor and the other is being raise up while straight, the other move, you have one leg fold so the foot is flat on the floor, while you raise the other one 7. Crunch... Another one that we need to do often in karate. But I actually liking this one, because it make me hold myself more straight after 8. Pendulum...Or modified pendulum... In the normal pendulum, you are lying flat on your back, you legs raise up and you touch your leg on one side while looking the other. The modified one you knees are bent and you touch your knees on the floor while looking the other way. 9.Squat... Hard on the leg, but so necessary to have strong legs, thigh especialy, for the stances in karate. You stand you leg a little larger than shoulder and you bent your knee while having your back straight 10.Leg raise... I never have time to do them all. But you are lying on your back, you start with having your leg up like for a candle(vertical) and then you bent your knee and push your legs so they are horizontal. 11. Calves raise with a chair...You stand with your arms on the back on a chair, with your feet flat on the floor and you then go on the tip of your feet 12. Cat strech...It start almost like a push-up, but in a inverse V shape, then your like round your back as you go down 13. Punch and kick...A very important part of karate...

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Ouch!!(3)

So here is a up-date on my wonderfull adventure with weapon in martial art.
Sore!
Sore!
Sore!
My back ache! I do tend to have more exagerated stance with the sword and I have to take a rounder stance to be able to put strengh in the moves.
Right after the freestyle with it, my shoulder were sore. It aplies big round movements, and I guess my shoulder aren't strong enough even with the 1 year and half of karate.
And right now, I can feel soreness all through my arms. Painfull to type! I'm devoted to writting for you!!
Who knew that it would involve other muscles than doing the normal freestyle and move ? I'm just finding it out that muscles to swing a 40 inch sword are not the same as just blocking someone!
At least, I made some improvement!! They are really minor, but I did!
The worst thing is that I feel that I only have like 3 moves!! And it doesn't seems enough to me! How can I do a freestyle with only 3 moves?? The freestyle is at least 30 seconds!!
And we always have to imagine someone that we are fighting against while doing the freestyle. I'm trying to imagine where will each move will hit on a real person, but I cannot imagine a opponent while doing some moves with my sword. And there is still nobody to help me that master that weapon.
And if someone want to give me a massage, it will be with pleasure... My permission is needed, doh!

Weapon!

So for the last month, I've been trying myself to the world of weapon...Since I didn't want to try the bo, the bamboo stick about the same height as yourself, I bought a wooden sword...I didn't want to have a real one, because I would probably have great cut all over my body with a real one, a metal one!!

So I've pratice it about 2 out of 3 pratices...I find it very hard...First of all, it makes other muscles than the usual. It is 40 inch long, and even if it is oak, it still have a certain weight more to manage... If learning the moves, which I don't really have someone to give me the basic, because we don't have someone who master the sword at any of the class that I go, wasn't hard already!!

Then, trying to find out point that would hit major artery or veins in a fluant movement is hard...Then, one of the sensei said to me to not forget to put strengh in each move that I make with the sword!! It is driving me crazy!! I'm so slow at it and I'm so much self concious about it!

It is frustrating!! If only I would get alot of help from someone... I'll tried to get better, but praticing is frustrating!!

Distraction

So, even if I try hard to concentrated on the class and what the instructors are telling us, some time, during the karate's class, I get distracted. But what you might ask. Well... What else than the men! Since it's a demanding sport, do I have to tell you that most of those men have really great body. And with that , some are handsome men. So for example, last Tuesday, we were doing the warm-up, we had this serie of like 30 or 50 push-up. Since I hate them and cannot do this much, so I was sitting down , and there was sansei M doing his, and was looking in my direction(normal, since I was not doing what was ask, and not really trying to do it). Do I need to say more about the mental picture that I had??

And then, on Monday, I was sparing with D. Did i said that this guy has a wonderfull smile. So when you are sparing, you pretty much get a feel of every part of the guy body. And know at the same time how in shape in the guy. Some of you are probably gonna say why I do go after him. He has a girlfriend and they have a house together.

At least I can use this excuse when I don't do a move right. I won't say it to the instructors, because I might get in big trouble, espacially in the case of the fact that the instructor might be the reason why I'm distracted.

Awfull

I'M drain!! This pratice was a bad one!! My body was there, but my mind and soul was not. Since my body was sore( strech something wrong yesterday, and I think I'm stiff from all this coughing) the moves just didn't feel good. Every kick made my muscle feel so tense up, not relaxe for a bit! My mind was not there because i was just so tired!! Since I could not concentrate well, I could not even think of getting the soul part(I still cannot do it during a good pratice!!) I hate when I cannot do things right.
Anyway, I'm going to bed... I have other things I want to talk about karate, I'll try to post it tomorrow!!

Weird class

So last Thursday was my second class of the real karate season. It was kind of weird!!I arrive in the gym like a minute late(I need to do something for this one, I'm having an hard time arriving before the warm-up). So I did the warm-up, and I think I actually did like 30 push-up in a row!! Yeah for me!! So then a break. That is when a woman(one of the kid mother) said to me that I was flexible. And she was like, yes, you are way more flexible than last year!! I was, in my head, like what, this is maybe the sixth time I come here, and she notice me?? And the last time I went there, exept on Tuesday was in September 2006.
Then, we had to spare. Sansei N. made G. spare with 4 childs and made me and a kid(I think he was a 1st degree blue belt) against sansei M. So sansei M. is a third degree black belt and I'm only a 2nd degree blue belt. I've never spar with somebody higher than a black belt!! And for a first sparing session since last June, it was hard. I had always to come into M., because he has more knowledge of the art and more strengh than me, and the kid wasn't as agressive and going after M. like I did!! Even if it was really tirening, it was great!!
And then, we did some up-and-down. I was against Georges. We are praticely the same strengh and he is a 1st degree and me a 2nd degree blue belt, so I enjoye going agains him. So we were doing the move and blocking, when all of a sudden, I raise my knee and and was about to do a front ball kick.That is when he block me, not with his hand, but his forearm. It was a chance that I was doing the kick right. I've been having an hard time rolling my toes, so it the foot that hit, but this time I was doing it right!! It hurt all night long. And today, my knee hurts!! I'm pretty sure that G. should have a big bruise now! He has good bones for a old man!!

Thursday Thirteen # 36

Thirteen Things about Jill 13 sports I've tried / 13 sports que j'ai pratiqués 1.If, you didn't know it by now, karate. I think this one would be for life. / Si vous ne le savez pas déjà, le karaté. Je pense que celui-ci va être pour la vie. 2. Handball... I've pratice this one for three years in high school. Was fun, but I was just getting better in my senior year. / Je l'ai pratiqué pendant 3 ans à l'école sécondaire. C'était amusant, mais je commencais juste à être meilleure pendant ma dernière année. 3.Badminton...I played when I was in elementery school, and play it back during a busy day at work. I really miss it!! 4. Basketbal 5. Voleyball... My only accomplishment in this sport, is hitting the same girl on the head twice while during it during my high school class. / Mon seul accomplissement dans ce sport, est d'avoir frappé la même fille deux fois par la tête avec le ballon, pendant qu'on y jouait pendant mon cour au secondaire. 6. Street hockey/Hockey boule... I was rough at this game, girls were always complaining about it/ J'étais rude à ce sport, les filles se plainaient toujours de ma rudesse lorsque j'y jouais. 7. Soccer...I miss someday playing this one, but since it is very demanding, I don't know if I could keep up. 8.Baseball...I'm a public danger when throwing the ball, watch out for your body!! 9. Tennis... I'm able to almost hit a jeep park at 100 meters!! 10. Swimming... I adore being in the water, but I need more strenght and endurance in my arm to fully do this sport. 11. Pilates...Strenght and strech in the same workout, I really like it even if I don't pratice it much 12. Rockcliming... This one I want to try it again. I've gain more flexibility and strenght since I've done it. 13. Kayaking... I want a kayak to myself to enjoye all the great river and piece of sea around my place! And you still have time for me to do some french translation!! Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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I'm mad / Je suis fachée

I don't get mad for much thing, but this one gets me really mad, because it's a tabboo thing for me!! Yesterday, my cousin ask me to make a cd with some of her picture. There was more picture than I thought, it annoye me, but this wasn't what got me mad. I was looking at the picture at the same time I was put it in a folder. That is when I saw a serie of 3 or 4 pictures. I see what on those pictures: my two little cousins with karate belt. One had a orange belt, who was his, and the other, who has no notion of karate, because he doesn't do some, in a green belt. My little cousin that does karate, it pass, because he doesn't have the discipline for karate, and almost none at home, and he doesn't understand the respect that we need to give to wearing a karate belt. The one I don't excuse, and that is making me mad, is my cousin, the father of that kid. He dies karate, and have his second degree blue belt, like me, even if it does more time than me that he pratices karate.

Doesn't he understand the respect that we have to have for this sport?? That the belts are the sign of our devotion and the knowledge of the movement and the mentality for this sport? Didn't he realise that those picture were ridicilous?? Didn't he was listening when one of our sensei, instructor or master sansei told to the children that if somebody else wanted to see karate, that he need to go to a pratice??

More I see my cousin going in that sport, more I think that he is only doing this only for exercice. He would never admit that somebody hurt him, especialy a girl or a woman. He hit me on the face, and was aiming all that time for where is the adam apple, when we say all the time that we don't need to hit hard or to not hit on the face. He need to look often if people, especially if his wife is there, are looking at him. And now, those pictures...

Je n'ai pas l'habitude d'être fachée pour beaucoup chose, mais celle-ci me fache beaucoup, car c'est une chose tabou pour moi! Hier ma cousine m'a demandé de lui faire un cd avec certaines de ses photos. Il y avait plus de photos que je croiais, ça m'a un peu écoeuré, mais ce n'est pas ça qui m'a mise en colère. Je regardais les photos en même temps que je les mettais dans un dossier. Là, je tombe sur une série de trois ou quatre photos. Je vois quoi sur ces photos: mes deux petits cousins avec des ceintures de karaté. Un avait une ceinture orange, qui est la sienne puisqu'il est dans le karaté, et l'autre, qui a aucune notion de karaté, puisqu'il n'en fait pas, avait une ceinture verte. Mon petit cousin qui fait du karaté, ça passait, il n'a pas de discipline pour le karaté et presqu'aucune chez lui et il ne comprend pas le respect que l'on doit porter à cette discipline. Celui que je n'Excuse pas, et qui me mets en colère, c'est mon cousin, le père de celui-ci. Il fait du karaté, et il a sa 2ième ceinture bleue, tout comme moi, malgré que ça fait plus longtemps que moi qu'il le pratique.
Est-ce qu'il n'a pas compris que l'on doit avoir respect pour ce sport? Que les ceintures sont le signe de dévouement et de l'apprentissage des mouvements et de la mentalité que promouvoit ce sport?? Est-ce qu'il ne s'est pas aperçu du ridicule de ces photos?? Est-ce qu'il n'a pas entendu lorsqu'un de nos sanseï, instructeur ou master sanseï disent aux enfants que si quelqu'un leur demande pour voir du karaté, qu'ils doivent venir à une pratique??
Plus je vois mon cousin aller dans ce sport, plus je pense qu'il le fait seulement pour faire de l'exercice. Il n'avouera jamais que quelqu'un lui a fait mal, spécialement une fille ou une femme. Il m'a déjà frappé au visage et il visait ou se trouve ma pomme d'adam, lorsque l'on dit de ne pas frapper dur, ou de ne pas viser le visage. Il regarde sans cesse si les gens, spécialement si sa femme est là, le regardent. Et de plus ces photos...

Chakra

So, today was my fifth karate summer class. We have a little assignement for the next week or two... We have to try developping our chakra. The first part our sansei wants us to focus on is the 3 first point of the chakra!!
So here are the point we will have to try to center, with their respective color:
-Crown: Purple
-Third Eye: Indigo
-Throat: blue
If we can focus those three, sansei told us it would be way more easier for us to do our karate and to have te strengh and energy to do karate and everyday things!!
So the first step I want to do is picturing those 3 colors at the 3 parts of the body correspondant!!
Then I'll try to enline them on a line....
This seems complicated!!

Teaching in middle of the summer?? What??

Did I tell you what happen last Tuesday?? We were only me, the guy where we do karate and one little girl to karate. Sansei N. was not there because he had something for his job or union. And quess who was the highess belt in the 3 of us?? ME!! And do you what does that means??I HAD TO TEACH THE CLASS!!! Me, with my little second degree blue belt, I had to teach a class!! With almost zero experience in teaching karate!! I had to find what was the routine we were going to do !!It is hard to remember the 20 moves we do in the warm-up...Think of it, that is only the warm-up!! Then I had to show a couple of sequence of movement to do!! I had to do it as perfectly as possible!! I had to correct the other two if needed!!
That makes me realise I'm not ready to teach karate...I have a lot more to learn... I think the 3 years that I planned would take me to get my black belt would give me the knowledge and technique I needed to teach that martial art...I have to work a lot, very a lot, on the spiruality part before even considering to be able to obtain my black belt sometime!!

Somebody wants to give me a massage??

So yesterday was our second summer karate pratice. Our instructor always wants us to push a little bit more during this period. He makes us do some new strech and warm up exercices, and a new sequel of movement. One of the move makes us block farther than usual, so it ask for a little bit more strech. Half way through the serie, i felt a cramp, I said to myself it will go away, and when I ended the serie, it still was cramp. I thought it would get better after I slept( I do believe that mostly every little pain and aches would dispeare after a good night of sleep)
But tonite, I still can feel the pain in the back of my leg, going from my butt to the back of my knee. I not some big pain, but still don't feel comfortable, and it's annoying to walk!!
So I'm asking for your help, fear blogger friends! Who wants to give me a massage to try get rid of this pain??

Shopping makes you realise some stuff

Like many of you know, I'm doing some karate

Last Friday, while I was trying some clothes, I laught at the way karate has sculpt my body.

Before I start karate, I had some big hips, big legs(that goes with the large hips) and had a little bit of a tummy. There was a difference between my hips and waist.

So on Friday, I was trying some clothes, shirts and skirt... While trying one of the shirt, I notice that I had some definition along my ribs, and it show more than before. You can start to see the muscles along two of my ribs. I really don't have any fat against my ribs!! But the tummy is always there!! I don't think I lost one inch of it since I'm in karate. I have some muscle along my ribs, but not any close to having some abs!! And the fact that I have some muscles along my rib, have made my ribcage larger!!

To add to that, my legs have go up in size like 2 inch each. They were big before I started!!

But I have to encorage myself, I never been so on shape, even when I was in hadball!! And I know to loose my tummy, and get abs, I have to stop loving and eating so much food. And to have the discipline to work-out outside of karate's pratices!

So here are some picture of me during our last two gradding:

-Me during december 2006 gradding

-D ans me during the gradding in december 2006

-Me during the last grading(May 8, 2007)

Comme plusieurs d'entre vous le savent, je fais du karaté...

Mais vendredi, pendant que j'essayais des vêtements, ça m'a fait rire la façon que le karaté a sculpté mon corps.

Avant que je débutais le karaté, j'avais les hanches larges, de grosses cuises(à cause des hanches) et je fesais un peu de bedaine. J'ai toujours eu un grande différence entre ma taille et mes hanches.

Donc, vendredi, j'essayais des vêtements, des chandails et des jupes... Lorsque j'ai essayé un des chandails, je me suis apercue que la définition le long de mes côtes était plus prononcée qu'avant. On peut commencer à voir les muscles de deux des cotes. Je n'ai vraiment plus de gras le long des côtes!! Mais le ventre est toujours là!! Je ne pense pas avoir perdu un cm le long d'ou est mon ventre. J'ai donc de beaux muscles le long de mes côtes, avec aucune pointe d'abdo!! De plus, le fait que j'ai des muscles visibles le long de mes côtes fait que j'ai élargie de la cage thoracique!! J'en avais déja pas une petite au début!!

DE plus, mes cuisses ont augmentée de taille d'environ deux pouces chacune. Elles étaient déjà assez grosses avant!!

Mais il faut m'encourager, je ne pense pas avoir été en forme comme ceci, même lorsque j'étais dans le handball!!! Et je sais que pour perdre mon ventre et avoir des abdominaux, il faut que j'arrête d'être si gourmande et d'avoir assez de discipline pour faire de l'exercice hors des pratiques de karaté!
Voici, aussi, quelque photos de moi pendant les deux derniers gradding:

-Moi lors du gradding de décembre 2006

-D et moi lors du gradding de décembre 2006

-Moi lors du gradding du 8 mai 2007

Think before you talk

On Thursday, I bought a pushing bag with a base. Earlier today I had a chance to try it! I almost walk it. When I kick it, it move, even if the base was fully loaded with water. In the 5 minutes, it had move like 10 feet!! At I had a blast hitting it with no restain.
This made me thought about something my cousin said a couple of year ago. The guy is like 6foot3, 6 foot 4 and is not a tiny guy. I don't know what we were talking about, but the conversation came to martial art.He said "There is no way a girl could kick a man and hurt him! She is tiny and he is huge, the is no way she could kick his ass!"(something like that, I don't remember the exact word, it's been more than 4 years!!)
Ok, I might not be a small girl, that weight an 120 pounds wet, but I can hurt any man as bad as a man with my kick. I might not hurt you with a punch, but I have a powerfull kick. If I can move a punching bag 10 feet in 5 min...
I would always remember one of the first time we use the punching bag at the small english karate class. One of the second degree black belt was holding the bag, and when I kick, he back up, and was suprise of hte strenght of my kick.
So boys, watch and think before you talk. Girls and Women can be as powerfull as you. We might not have the muscular weight that you have, but that doesn't mean that we are not as powerfull as you! I remember one woman that almost knock out a man with a single punch while sparring for a belt!!
A big weakness you can show in karate, is underestimating your opponent!! Know your strengh, know your weakness, but do the same for your opponent!!

Is master sanseï blind??

Well, on Tuesday, it was our grading... I did my freestyle, it started bad, I almost lost completely my balance, and that made me wondering more for my moves than usual, and like screw up my rythm. And for the sparring, I was with my brother in law!!! Even if he is a brown belt, and I was a green, we always enjoye it... Even if he is my in law, we have more a big brother- little sister relationship... So it's always fun to kick his ass!! My cousin , the one that punch me in the face, had the gust of saying to him that he has to go smooth on me(afterward, he told my BIL that he was rought on me!!) Back to the sparring!! The first hit I recieve was on the leg, and it hurt all the way trhought the pratice(I have a bruise now!!) I still did 4 point(for you, unfamiliar with martial art and karate, I was able to touch/hit him 4 times without being block).
After my sparring(the higher belt would have their gradding Monday) we had a little break. Then, it was time for the comment, the certificate and our new belt... Since I was the highest belt that was grade, I was last to receive my belt. It is when I saw my instructor searching for two belts. Master sanseï say to me " I was really impress by you, so I had to give you your 2nd blue belt", I was like "What?" I look a my instructor, who was giving me the two blue belt, and look to the score sheet. Wrote over the 1st, there was a 2.
i don't think I deserve the score that I got!! And I really know I'm not ready for all the things that go with being a 2nd blue belt!! My blocks suck big time!! They are ok when I'm with a lower belt, but when I'm with a higher belt, I only block like 1 out of 3 moves!! Why does master sanseï doesn't see that?? Am I the only one that is seeing my mistakes???

Not yet!! / Pas déjà

Wow I've been slacking on this blogging thing lately!!! Exept for my Thursday Thirteen, I've not been doing much entries this month!! And even more slacking on my karate thinking!!
It is official, the grading would be on May 8!! I'm gonna try to pass my first blue belt!! I don't think I have done much progress since december. I just added like two moves to my register... I'm still struggling to do my sweep... and I cannot put a roll in my freestyle without loosing the flow of it!! still have 5 pratices to perfect it!!
Lately I've been having a lot of feedback from the higher belt!! There was a time when i was like : "Don't they see I did that move wrong??" . But the last two or three weeks, they've been helping me a lot. The only thing, some pratice , I just feel I have an information overload!!! Old D(I'm gonna talk about two guys that there name start with a D and are my instructor) who is definitly a perfectionist, is the one that is giving me more feedback... "Do your wheel kick like this" , "Your side block should be that way" "Be careful to have your heel out fir the side kick" Those thing make me so consious of my moves, i have to think of like ten thing while doing a simple move!! Yesterday, K was saying while we were sparring, "Kick faster, because if you take too much time, I could do this move" While grabing my leg and holding it up!
So much to think such little time!!!
In today pratice, I was doing up and down, not even sparring, with my cousin, and he hit me on the jaw, between the lips and the nose... The traitor was aiming my face the whole up and down. We have a rule that say that unless you have gloves, you cannot hit on the face. He was say that he stop his move, but it was me that came in... I don't usualy come in somebody with enough force for cutting my inner upper lips at 3 distinct places. And I almost forgot to say, the guy was aiming for my face and where should be my adam's apple a couple of time!
Then, while sparring, I was with young D. Last time, he went really smooth on me. I know he is damn good... I do appreciate every time he does his freestyle, and it is spectacular!! I was "come on, don't go smooth on me!! You can hit me!!" The guy ws having fun on me... He has the lowest stand I ever saw(he is my height, and goes almost to the floor!!) and was going that low! The guy had a big smile on his face the whole time!! But I wish I could make my move like him!!

It was time / C'était le temps

Some of you might have notice the lack of post lately, and the same lack of comments on your blog. Well, it was because I didn't have energy enough to write or visit you. For the last week and a half, I've been feeling dizzy, and at some other points, it was just like somebody took a seringe and took all my energy from my body. So I did visit my doctor, to make him notice my blood pressure was too high (my doctor didn't seem to believe it, he took it like 3 times. I have to say, that it is a little bit lower than the average usualy!) And I have to go take some blood tests!! I don't think I will have some blood left after them, because I saw like 10 test on the sheet!!
But today, I'm back almost to normal... I have some energy, the dizzyness is almost gone. Yesterday, I could finaly redo a little bit of exercice. I did go smooth, because it didn't go well during the karate pratice on Monday( I would talk a bout it lower)... I'm gonna retry tonight, because the lack of energy gets on my nerf and make me feel like a robot!!
So, now back to my karate pratice... Just the trip to go there was demanding, and I did a little bit of shopping before. (And yes, for once, shopping was more like a chore) So master sanseï L told us that the grading would be at the beginning of May. That only give us about a month to make our freestyle better and to pratice our sparring!! So there is only a month left for me to learn the moves to pass my first blue belt!!! Ouch!! There are still some movements that give me an hard time!! So back to my Monday's pratice!! So I did start the warm up, it went well, since we do a lot of the movement on the floor and I can think to breath easily. But I took it easy to be sure! Break. Then, we did the series of movement. I was starting to feel the lack of energy and the dizzyness. Then, some sparring one-way(what we call up-and-down). My partner told me that I look exausted... We go easy, the energy is not there. Change of partner, this one got better since last time we pratice together, and I could not take advantage of that... I needed to go sit, because if I wouldn't have done it, I was affraid to pass out!! For the first time in 11 month of karate, I needed to go sit, I could not continue praticing. I had cold, some of my muscles hurt, but never did I needed to stop and take a break while the other were continuing praticing. I was so disappointed. And I had to sit a whole 15 minutes...

I hate having so little energy... It makes me feel like a disable person. I couldn't do normal day thing. I hope it won't come back...

But, now I'm back... Back to my old normal self!!

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Plusieurs se sont peut-être apercus du manque d'entrées ces derniers temps, et le manque de commentaires chez vos blogs. Bien, je n'avais pas l'énergie nécessaire pour écrire ou vous visiter. La dernière semaine et demie, je me sentais étourdie, et à d'autres moments, juste comme si quelqu'un aurait pris une seringue et simplement aspiré l'énergie de mes membres. Visite sur le médecin, pour me faire dire que ma pression sanguine était trop élevée(mon médecin ne semblait pas y croire lui même, il l'a repris comme 3 fois. Il faut dire que généralement, elle est un peu plus base que la moyenne) . Et je dois aller passer des tests sanguins!! Je pense qu'il ne me restera plus de sang après ceux-ci, j'en ai vu comme 10 sur la feuille!!
Me revoilà aujourd'hui, me sentant finalement presque mon moi-même normale... J'ai de l'énergie, l'étourdissement est presque partie. Hier j'ai finalement pu refaire un peu d'exercice. J'y ai été molo, car ça n'avait pas bien été lors de ma pratique de karaté lundi(je vais vous en parler un peu plus bas)... Je réessayerai ce soir, car le manque d'énergie m'éxaspérait et me rendait comme une automate!!
Donc, me voici à ma pratique de karaté... Juste le voyage pour y aller m'avait demandé beaucoup, et en plus j'avais été magasiné un peu auparavant.(Et oui, pour une fois, c'était un exploit magasiné, presqu'une corvée) . Donc master sanseï L nous dit que le grading est au début de mai. Ce qui nous reste environ un mois pour perfectionner notre freestyle et pratiquer le sparring!! Donc il me reste un mois seulement pour savoir les mouvements pour ma première ceinture bleue!!! Ouf!! Il y a des mouvements qui me donnent encore de la difficulté!! Donc revenant à la pratique de ce lundi!! Je commence les réchauffements, ca va bien, puisque l'on fait une partie de ceux au sol, et que je peux penser à bien respirer sans difficulté. Mais j'y vais assez doucement quand même. Pause. Là on fait une suite de mouvements. Je commence à sentir les étourdissement et le manque d'énergie. Par la suite, un peu de sparring à un sens(ce que l'on appelle les ups-and-downs). Ma partenaire me dit que j'ai l'air épuisé... Nous y allons lentement, l'énergie n'y est pas. Change de partenaire, celui-ci s'est amélioré depuis notre dernier partage, mais je ne peux pas profiter du défi... Je dois m'asseoir, sinon, j'ai peur de tomber dans les pommes. Pour la première fois en 11 mois de karaté, j'ai du m'asseoir, ne pouvant plus continuer la pratique. J'ai eu des grippes, j'ai eu mal à certains membres, jamais je n'avais du arrêter au cours d'une pratique. Ceci m'a telement déçu. En plus j'ai dû m'asseoir pendant comme 15 minutes.
Je hais avoir si peu d'énergie... Je me sentais comme une invalide. Je n'étais pas capable de faire les choses de toutes les jours normalement. J'espère que ca ne reviendra pas...
Mais me revoila... À nouveau à la normale!!