Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01551

It is now two days after my Krav Maga Evaluation. I had it on Friday night from 6:30pm – about 8:30pm. It felt much longer than that. It was a physically exhausting test to see if I could make it into Boot Camp so that I could test for my black belt in June.

the evaluation started with the mile run which I completed in 10:07. Not the greatest time but not the worst and not terrible seeing as I have not run in a while. I’ve done a lot of other physical activity but running I have not done. Then when we got in we did the push ups and I did 43 out of the 59 I needed for a 100%. I was sucking wind really badly after the run. Then we did the squats and I did all 82 that I needed to do for 100%. My plank was very weak at 50 seconds. I just could not catch my breath and power through it. So, I know where I need to concentrate my physical work in the next few months.

I also know that I have to start doing the physical requirements each day before class so that I do my classes in the exhausted physical state that I was in for the rest of the evaluation. that way I can work through that exhaustion. The whole rest of the evaluation was a struggle. I was winded and felt very slow. We did two self defense drills and they were so difficult to keep up with. I thought that I was not going to make it into Boot Camp. I did make it in and so did everyone else in our evaluation. I am sure that there are some major points I will need to work on in order to earn that black belt, though.

As for today, I am having a very hard time getting around because 82 squats and a mile run have made my legs so sore and stiff. I applied that bottle of biofreeze to my legs the same way a spray pain artist would apply paint to a rusty water tower. Liberally.