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Oct. 20th, 2003 11:07 amI skipped wushu yesterday. I was sore, and the house was messy, and the option of mostly staying home and cooking and cleaning just seemed so much more appealling...
For those of you who've asked, actually I do enjoy wushu a great deal. I am somewhat frustrated with it at the moment, since I prefer to be doing things to sitting out, and jumps are so fricking fun, and I tend to vent about my frustrations in my journal. I'm also actively reminding myself that I'm more personally invested in internal arts, because it would be easy to concentrate on the wushu, and let my taiji stagnate, just because of how the classes are set up right now. There is something of a tendency in me that if you wave a challenge in my face, I will jump for it... I think all the wushu is good for me, but it's not a time to be pushing it any further than what I'm doing just by attending so many classes. (And dispositionally, it's actually really hard for me to sit out for part of a class, even when I know it's a good idea. I feel lame a guilty.) Oh, and did I mention the endorphin highs?
Meanwhile, we're among the most advanced students in the taiji classes, which means that it would be very easy to coast. Rehabbing after an injury isn't much fun. Right now the injuries really aren't effecting my taiji much at all (I'd be perfectly happy to compete in my current state of health) but there are a number of things that I've been able to do well in the past in wushu that I can't do, or can't do well, now.
Anyhow, on the other side of the equation, we stopped by Lisa's open studio, which was really cool. And cleaned the kitchen, fired up the oven, started bread and more squash tomatillo beans, made lasagne... And Craig vacuumed the living room and steam cleaned a bunch of stains from the carpet. And we got more candles, though I need to make a run to Ikea and get even more candles. This time of year, plus high winds and lots of rain, and candles are a good thing to have around.
For those of you who've asked, actually I do enjoy wushu a great deal. I am somewhat frustrated with it at the moment, since I prefer to be doing things to sitting out, and jumps are so fricking fun, and I tend to vent about my frustrations in my journal. I'm also actively reminding myself that I'm more personally invested in internal arts, because it would be easy to concentrate on the wushu, and let my taiji stagnate, just because of how the classes are set up right now. There is something of a tendency in me that if you wave a challenge in my face, I will jump for it... I think all the wushu is good for me, but it's not a time to be pushing it any further than what I'm doing just by attending so many classes. (And dispositionally, it's actually really hard for me to sit out for part of a class, even when I know it's a good idea. I feel lame a guilty.) Oh, and did I mention the endorphin highs?
Meanwhile, we're among the most advanced students in the taiji classes, which means that it would be very easy to coast. Rehabbing after an injury isn't much fun. Right now the injuries really aren't effecting my taiji much at all (I'd be perfectly happy to compete in my current state of health) but there are a number of things that I've been able to do well in the past in wushu that I can't do, or can't do well, now.
Anyhow, on the other side of the equation, we stopped by Lisa's open studio, which was really cool. And cleaned the kitchen, fired up the oven, started bread and more squash tomatillo beans, made lasagne... And Craig vacuumed the living room and steam cleaned a bunch of stains from the carpet. And we got more candles, though I need to make a run to Ikea and get even more candles. This time of year, plus high winds and lots of rain, and candles are a good thing to have around.
