darren_stranger | 3 days and counting..

The draw for Saturday's competition has been announced, with six of us in my division, so that should make it interesting (as will the patterns being done on mats this year, as i haven't trained on them since the grading last year). From MTC, as well as David and myself, there's Mark and Jamie, plus two guys from other clubs. I'm trying this week to practise some of the technical changes i got from Greg on Saturday, but on the day i'm going to try to put them out of my mind and focus on style and soft-hard motions for snap (hopefully my hands will slip into the new wind-up positions by themselves if i work on that now).

I'm really looking forward to this, if i can only stop psyching myself out about those turning side kicks.

(Edit - i just discovered the stores area at work is a good place for pracising Pyongwon, the space between the shelves being just wide enough to do every move except the backfist strikes, but narrow enough to make me stay in a straight line with those kicks. May help arrest that excessive spin).

(Edit the Second - doing it on mats may actually help those side kicks, by limiting the amount of spin so i don't get out of control. I just have to remember to keep my support knee bent for balance and it should be fine.)