This and That

THIS:

An annoucement: this blog is going back to being Obsidian Tempest. Kim is having such a fun time writing for her own blog, Nothing Heavy, that I'm mostly the only one posting over here anyway. Kim is still welcome as a guest poster whenever she has a funny story about us or me of course.

My posting will be mostly thoughts and events, comments on what's going on. Much like I do now.

THAT:

I was successful in my 1st Stripe review for my white belt yesterday (sidebar graphic updated). There was a couple of items that I thought I knew by heart but was slightly off, but the things I practiced I nailed perfectly. I had one panic attack though. Sensi Allison asked me to do the escapes I needed to do and then asked me to do one I knew wasn't on the 1st stripe test. I nailed it because my old training kicked in even though I hadn't reviewed it here yet. Then she asked me another escape that wasn't on the 1st stripe and I asked "I didn't think these were on the 1str stripe?" and she laughs and says "I know, we just have lots of time and I wanted to see what you knew." That was a relief cause I totally didn't have a clue what to do in the escape.

So now I have to start practicing for my next white belt stripe which I'm hoping to get by the end of the month.

Funny story: during the warmup the Sensi told us to get the medicine balls out and remembering back to Friday I just about fainted. Fortunately it was a different exercise that was not as painful. Whew!