Thursday Combat at Axis

Yes, I already have a blog titled Thursday Combat @ Axis, but I'm lazy to think of another blog title. And again, I decided against sleeping early. I'm in sort of a storytelling mood, besides, I need to be on Facebook (I've got 8 games pending my moves). So, came on line but compromised with not turning on my MSN Messenger.

OK, I still don't like Track 5, and guess what?! We did the "wedding" track today, just after I'd chat about it with LadyN hours before the class! I wish I can import that particular vigorous head shaking emo onto here. That's exactly what I wanted to do when I heard The Wedding March just now. In comparison, I do prefer the girlfriend track. Or the one we did on Monday at TC (don't ask me about song titles, please...)

Actually, I was late to combat today. I still remember at about 5pm ish, I replied to Stan's MSN message saying "so far so good" to his question of whether I was going to be at Axis. Even Steve asked me that and said he might be going. He didn't actually. Then at 6.20pm, when I was giving my boss an update on some matters in hand, as my parting note to him for the day, he asked me to send out some documents. Of course I didn't want to ask him if it was ok for me to only send tomorrow. So there I was at almost 6.45pm, still waiting for the snail like server to send out my 4MB file. Texted Stan requesting for a reservation of space in the class in case I was late and I read his message that told me that Farid and Diha was already there when my car reached the traffic light for U-turn to Axis.

I was not THAT late you know, when I arrived, everyone had just only entered the studio. When I finally got changed and got to the entrance of the studio, they were still doing the warm up track, but I didn't enter straight away because everyone was doing their kickings and I noticed that my planned route was somehow blocked by this particular guy. Besides, it's perhaps not so courteous to just barge in and annoy people who were concentrating hard with their jabbing. HOWEVER, one girl just went in and shuffled herself to the front part of the class. By the time I'd managed to enter without being a nuisance to others, the class had moved on to the left set of lower body warm up. And, there was no space near Stan, assuming that girl who had just charged into the class before me taking my "space reservation". Humphhh...

Anyways, Stan managed to get me some space later, so at least I didn't feel so "left out" and shouting made easy by standing near the gang. And was that a remark from someone saying that I was late?

During my course of rushing to the class, I'd forgotten my bandanna! A disaster? Definitely. Stan couldn't really recognize for starter, someone commented that I was more drenched after the class, plus I had this curtain of hair in front of my eyes towards the end of the class giving me less than perfect vision. Not to mention without the defence against sweat dripping onto my face. Quite exaggerating, but true.

Farid was spotted being really tired, came for the workout even though fasting, wah... tough. I was sort of glad that I didn't have the impulse to grumble for at least 2 of the tracks, one of which my all time favorite, and the other Shen's. All the tracks were the same as Tuesday, except for Track 5. Hmmm... am I right? Well, I feel that it's quite acceptable for instructors to use the same tracks for the whole week, but not more than that. After all, not every one's gonna do combat everyday of the week right? So to most members, the tracks were not repeating.

Blame it to my partial warming up, I got quite a serious cramp on my left foot during cool down (when I was trying hard to balance on one leg) and had to limp out the studio.

I sometimes feel that we members are just a fussy bunch of people, we like to grumble about just anything that happen during and around the class, it's part of the entertainment (members entertaining instructor) and it's how we show concern and interest towards the class and the instructor. Although we didn't die doing 4 more push-ups because the instructor didn't lay his mat properly and was not ready, we still like to make some noise.