Still aching from Tuesday....

Boy, that must have been some lesson Tuesday night. My legs are STILL aching from it today (Friday).

Taekwondo on a Tuesday

Finally made it along to the Tuesday session in Croydon held by Master Mark Drury (4th Dan). Exhausting, but certainly a great lesson. I'm definately going to try and make the Tuesday session more often as it's very different to the lessons I normally go to in Mitcham. I'm not, however, drawing comparisons as to which sessions are better - too much respect for my instructors to want to start doing that! It does seem to me though that training with different instructors regularly can't be bad for your overall Taekwondo development as there is different emphasis on the various aspects to the training.
Not busy next Tuesday and live in or around the Croydon area? Grab a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt (plain) and just turn up - starts 8pm, runs for an hour and a half. Always good to see new people. The address is:

Energie Fitness Club
Stephenson House
2 Cherry Orchard Road
East Croydon
Surrey

Tip: 1 minutes' walk from East Crydon train station. The class is for 14 year olds and up.

Tournament

My club held a small tournament yesterday and invited the students from St Katherine's Taekwondo led by Master Sargent to attend. Unfortunately, while St Katherines did bring a large compliment of juniors, they didn't submit any adult fighters so all the Chung Yong adults had to fight members of their own club. I got Michael (he's recently moved up to 8th Kup) and he beat me 12-11 on points. Despite the obvious drawback of not winning, I really enjoyed the match and learned a few things about what I can do to improve on my tournament fighting.

The St Katherines fighters were impressive to see - they have some very talented fighters there and I'm glad the two clubs are affiliated to each other.