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Wednesday April 19, 2006

Karate!

Took this up as a bit of addition exercise for the new year. My wife and 5 year old son have been doing it a bit longer and have already achieved their orange belts. I recently got my yellow one, so now feel I'm in the club.

In case your interested we're doing a variation of Shotokan and the belts run thusly:

White
Red
Yellow
Orange
Green
Blue
Purple
Brown One Stripe
Brown Two Stripe
Black.

The journey from white to black takes about five years with reasonable commitment, so I've sent myself a target of getting a black belt before I'm 40. Scary thought! It's quite a challenge, as the level of flexibility and fitness is quite a lot higher than most other sports I've attempted. However, I'm pretty fit, and it's fun during the warm up sessions to see all the teenagers collapsing at the side of the Dojo and whinging when old Greybeard is still going... ;-)

I'm under no illusions that I'm going to be a sort of mid life Bruce Lee, more a sort of "Crouching techie, hidden consultant" I suspect.

All I want is to be able to jump into a room and shout "Small Tree!" ;-)

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