Then, we played capture the flag. I would not have thought it possible in so small a space, but we had a lot of fun. My team lost our first game but we won our second, placing us third in the tournament and earning us six points.
After all at running around, we took a little break and did some reading. Of course, the tendon in my foot tightened up something awful while I was sitting, and I limped rather heavily as we started our next thing: kicking drills, but they loosened up after a bit. Kicking is my favorite. Instructor Eric had us do a tricking kicking drill where we did a roundhouse kick followed by another roundhouse kick with the same leg. We had to make a funny switch between kicks in order for them to both be back leg round house kicks.
After kicking drills, it was time for lunch. We take a whole hour break for lunch even though it only takes about 20 minutes to eat our lunch, so that our food has time to settle. With nothing to do, a few students got in trouble (again), but most everyone else got out their nun chucks to practice their form. I was surprised how many students had practiced. Almost everyone had the form memorized.
After lunch, we started with three minutes of running. This time we switched directions every time our slowest runner completed ten laps. Instead of blocking and punching drills we practiced forms. We did basic forms numbers 1, 2, & 3. It has been a very long time since I had done those forms. I was surprised at how quickly they came back to me.
Finally it was time to practice with our nunchucks. I was really surprised that everybody was so much faster than me. I'm slowest at almost everything except maybe punching, but I practiced a lot with my nun chucks last night. Thought I would be amazing, but I'm still the slowest. Oh well, a good reason to keep practicing.
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