Saturday morning I went to a black belt pre-test class and had a really class, including a great workout We went through basics, knocking, knocking with a kick, knife-hand sets, knife-hand sets with the kick, knife-hand sets with the kick and a counter, and one steps. We then divided into groups, including one group that will be testing in 6 weeks.
GM had us pre-testers do the first kicho. My mind had been so Palgwe and Koryo saturated lately for the upcoming test that I was afraid the Palgwe stuff knocked out some information about the most basic of basic forms. Fortunately, it didn't and I felt really good about it. GM told us he could tell a lot about the way we would perform the other forms based on how we did the first kicho. Next he asked us to do Koryo. Cool, I though. I've been working Koryo hard and have it down pretty well too. Still needs some polish, of course. BAM! Brain fart after the first knee-break!!! I was stuck. GM sent a high ranking bb over to help me and another person with it. After we went through it a few times the bb left us and I kept going through Koryo over and over and over to help prevent the embarrassing brain fart again.
Anyway, after the workout the middle finger on my left hand felt like something was scratching it. I looked down to find that my wedding band had snapped. I couldn't believe it. It looked like one of those adustable costume jewelry rings with the open back. I didn't do any free sparing. The only fairly solid hitting I did with that hand was the punch to the open hand and the hammerfist to the palm in Koryo.
At the time I thought my better half, who put that ring on my finger, is going to be very upset. Well she was a little upset, but now she sees this as an opportunity to 'upgrade' our rings. Oh boy.
Anyway, my sahbumnim is (jokingly) very impressed with the power I put into my forms. He says that it may not have broke with the hammerfist or striking the palm, but may have happened with one of my punches to thin air. As the fist stopped the ring just couldn't resist the power and momentum transferred to it and the ring was compelled to stay in motion (or something like that). Some wiseguy!
For me, Koryo has become the wedding band break form, and I hope there isn't any unfortunate breaking in Bassai!
GM had us pre-testers do the first kicho. My mind had been so Palgwe and Koryo saturated lately for the upcoming test that I was afraid the Palgwe stuff knocked out some information about the most basic of basic forms. Fortunately, it didn't and I felt really good about it. GM told us he could tell a lot about the way we would perform the other forms based on how we did the first kicho. Next he asked us to do Koryo. Cool, I though. I've been working Koryo hard and have it down pretty well too. Still needs some polish, of course. BAM! Brain fart after the first knee-break!!! I was stuck. GM sent a high ranking bb over to help me and another person with it. After we went through it a few times the bb left us and I kept going through Koryo over and over and over to help prevent the embarrassing brain fart again.
Anyway, after the workout the middle finger on my left hand felt like something was scratching it. I looked down to find that my wedding band had snapped. I couldn't believe it. It looked like one of those adustable costume jewelry rings with the open back. I didn't do any free sparing. The only fairly solid hitting I did with that hand was the punch to the open hand and the hammerfist to the palm in Koryo.
At the time I thought my better half, who put that ring on my finger, is going to be very upset. Well she was a little upset, but now she sees this as an opportunity to 'upgrade' our rings. Oh boy.
Anyway, my sahbumnim is (jokingly) very impressed with the power I put into my forms. He says that it may not have broke with the hammerfist or striking the palm, but may have happened with one of my punches to thin air. As the fist stopped the ring just couldn't resist the power and momentum transferred to it and the ring was compelled to stay in motion (or something like that). Some wiseguy!
For me, Koryo has become the wedding band break form, and I hope there isn't any unfortunate breaking in Bassai!
