{"id":78,"date":"2008-06-25T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-06-25T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T14:22:00","slug":"i-sparred-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"I Sparred! (Finally)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s TKD class was so awesome! I was the only student who showed up which is awesome because it’s like getting a private lesson with out paying extra and also less stressful. \ud83d\ude00 I was able to go over my form with my instructor which was nice. I got some very good feedback and pointers. I can definitely use these to sharpen my form. Then it was time to spar…gasp! Finally, right? I have to admit – I’ve been trying to skirt around it. I was super nervous. However, there was nowhere to hide last night. It was very intimidating trying to spar with my much higher ranked and much larger instructor. And I survived. There were 4 rounds. The first 3 consisted of me just trying to score (that’s coming within 6 inches for my rank), and the last round he also tried to attack. I managed to actually get a couple of “hits”. Even though I was by no means really good at sparring, I realized that it wasn’t all that difficult. I’m pretty sure that I can do the tournament now. I will only be up again green and senior green adult females, none of which have been sparring very long either. I probably won’t win, but I don’t think I’ll be laughed out of the building either. \ud83d\ude42 Now I just need to practice my form like crazy. I hope so happy that I finally got this step behind me. Sparring is so demanding on the body! It will make for better classes I think (exercise speaking).<\/p>\n

Usually, I don’t go to Wednesday night classes because they are geared toward sparring, but now that I’m sparring, I’m pretty excited about attending this night. I will find another night to take off because I still like to keep one night where Bryan and I stay home and have some quality time together during the week.
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Last night’s TKD class was so awesome! I was the only student who showed up which is awesome because it’s like getting a private lesson with out paying extra and also less stressful. \ud83d\ude00 I was able to go over my form with my instructor which was nice. I got some very good feedback and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}