Living the Life of a Gladiator.. but did Roman Gladiators have to PAY tuition?

Friday May 13


I messed up my knee a couple days ago so i been training a bit light. Today Shifu told us there was sparring. I didnt want to spar but last time i told Shifu i would spar next time so i couldnt say no this time. I told him i will spar light because of my knee and he was glad.


Next class sparring began. I ran upstairs got my gear, ate a snack, put on sparticus the tv show for a bit while i got on my wrist wraps. That seemed to pump me up a little. Then headed down to fight. I didnt have a partner so shifu paired me up with Montreal, a Shaolin guy. He is a little taller than me, from New Jersey, and a bit more muscular than me. when it was our turn to fight he kept doing jump kicks like taikwando style. I would block them or move and attack. He kept falling down and got tired real fast. I was fine. I was shocked how well my stamina has improved. He has good take downs but i dazzed him a few times. The shifu/Refferee of the match would stop us after one of us falls or get dazzed so we cant hurt each other too bad. I think this has been my best fight here, my master even told me i did a lot better but of course i have a few things to improve. Found out later that Montreal did taikwando for about 10 years. After the fight i skipped the mountain run to let my knee rest. The weekend was good. And now back to training.


Today we did extra power training. It was pretty rough. Master added more weight to the squats and push outs. about 80kg for the squats and 20 kg for the push outs. We were destoryed after the workout.


My friend Clement moved into the hotel down the road with Oran because there are to many students in the academy and they are running out of room. Hope no more join wing Chun. We have about 20 people now in our class. He doesnt have internet in his hotel room so he checked some things on my computer. I gave him some oreos, chewy bars, a jar of nuts, and other food to help boost his moral because he seemed a little upset about moving. He is our class leader. So if he has low moral, we have low moral! Plus he said he will give me free skiing lessons when he resumes his job as a ski instructor, which is never a bad thing.


Going to get a good sleep tonight. I stayed up late watching Wall-E. I forgot how great a movie that was and i forgot about the time. Ended up going to sleep around 11.


Goodnight.


-Scott