RabbitingOnAboutMyObsessionAgainYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. Friday night's Jitsu session was deeply upsetting to me. On Monday I'd been having a few twinges and some wierd pain in my right upper groin muscle, but nothing crippling. I also had a few twinges around the area when I moved funny later in the week. On Friday we started with breakfalling, lots of pegleg and I even got taught over-the-belt with the soft mat. (Thanks goodness for the soft mat.) Both pegleg, sideways falls and over-the-belt involve landing flat on your side to dissipate the impact through as large a 'non-vital' surface area as possible, unfortunately, as a girl, the sides of my body are a little less 'level' than those of a man, which means my hips take a fair portion of the impact. Now everytime my hips hit the floor I exacerbate whatever injury this is to the point that two thirds of the way through the class landing on my hip caused a spasm in the offended muscle so intense that I couldn't get up for a minute from sheer agony. Unfortunately this all may be the result of a lower-back injury and something may be crushing a nerve - causing the spasms. Fortunately I know a physiotherapist, and apparently while there are a lot of things that can cause this pain, most of them are easy to right! So tonight I'm cooking Lauren a nice dinner, and hoping that she can sort me out! Session last night was just that much more frustrating since I had to keep sitting things out! I also had a bit of a revelation this morning. I'd been telling people that I've been doing Jitsu for four months now. I'd somehow managed to convince myself that I'd had a full three months of being a novice before I graded. This isn't the case! In fact on Friday, not only was it my birthday, but it was also the three month anniversary of me starting jujitsu - 8th of April was my first class! This is significant because it means I've been picking things up and progressing a lot faster than I realised. I've also had a look at my syllabus for my next grading and I kind of know a about 80% of it already! This means I've got another two months to set that in stone and get it right before I next grade. What a relief! Orange-belt should be a walk through! Also orange-belt involves ground-work which yellow didn't, and much to my surprise I'm actually enjoying the ground work far, far more than I expected to. There's a new girl who's started and she and I have great fun wrestling each other! Wheee! Think I might get Lauren to teach me a few more holds sometime (since not only is she a physio, but she's also a pretty high grade in Judo). Plus, hopefully terrorists will not prevent me from going to watch Kung-fu Hussel on Thursday! Yay! I'm a pretty happy camper for an injured one! Salvation is on it way! (Just not for yoooou!) (Oh, and in case it means anything to anyone apparently my personality is ENTJ - with low score in J, persumably meaning I also express some ENTP qualities. I've been bored, have we noticed?) Comment: Me too (by Bast? on 2005-07-13 09:27:33)More specifically "the field marshall", with the likes of Margaret Thatcher, ergh, go figure. I prefer the Keirsey (www.keirsey.com) explanation to the Jung-Myers-Briggs explanation of personality. My T and J are high-er, altho I'm not entirely sure what the upward limits are. Comment: MB (by AndieMoore? on 2005-07-13 10:04:43)On the standard test, the range is from -10 to 10. For example. A ten in E/I is extrovert. a -10 is extremely introvert. Comment: erm... (by Bast? on 2005-07-13 10:35:35)all of my scores are higher than 10. And that is for the MB test. I think that the lower limit is 0 and upper limit is 100. Comment: Keirsey... (by OOPMan on 2005-07-13 11:19:59)Aha, so other people have done the Keirsey test then, eh? Pretty interesting. Mine came out INTJ - "The Mastermind". Amusingly, I've done the test several times over the course of the last few years. I only remember this when I get the answer, since it triggers my memory at that point and I go "Hey, I've seen this result before. Doh, I've done this test before...". I found both explanations, Keirsey and Myers-Briggs to be acurate in many respects. Some details of the former were not in the latter, and vice versa, details which do fit me :-) |