KC Blog: Power Stretching- I am a lucky girl

Power Stretching- I am a lucky girl

For my second class today we had power stretching. This was my first time having power stretching and I was a little nervous. We had to hold the splits for 6 minutes. Rong Sheifu would come around and put his foot on our backs and push us down lower, I fell forward on my face because it hurt so bad.

We then had to partner up. I was so lucky; I didn’t have a partner to stretch me so I figured I’d stretch on my own. WRONG!  Sheifu was nice enough to help me stretch. I got in the butterfly position, butterfly stretch is when you sit on the ground and have the bottoms of your feet facing each other and you then have to push your knees down on the floor. Sheifu stood on my knees and pushed my back down so that my forehead was close to my feet. OMG it hurt but I couldn’t stop laughing. It was a nervous laugh and he would look at me wondering why I was laughing. We had to hold the butterfly for 2 minutes. Thank God Rong Sheifu isn’t that heavy because I was already dying. He then made me do a butterfly stretch facing the floor and he sat on my back. It hurt sooooooooooo bad but I couldn’t stop laughing. I looked at Jenny, the translator, and told her I was dying. She told Master Rong and he laughed and said he wasn’t even heavy and wouldn’t get up. 

The last stretch I did with Master Rong was the worst. I had to lie on my back and he pushed my knees out to stretch my hips. It hurt SO BAD I grabbed his wrists and kept saying “ok ok”. He’d look at me like I was crazy and asked the translator why I was laughing. He told me to relax but I couldn’t. Sheifu had to help me straighten my legs after each stretch because it hurt so badly I felt like I was stuck. Thankfully the next stretches required 3 people to do and I was able to join a group. One person would sit on my leg while the other person would push my leg up. After class I wasn’t sure if I could make it to my room on not.

On Wednesday I woke up so sore! We have stance training on Wednesday s and it wasn’t very fun. I had a hard time holding my poses and Sheifu came around and hit me with a stick because I wasn’t holding my horse stance low enough and they he kicked me because  I wasn’t holding my cat stance low enough. It makes me feel like he cares about me when he pushes me to work harder.

After Mountain Run.  I am getting in better shape.  I am a Lucky Girl to be here!

Julie is leaving on Thursday morning and I’m really sad. But when Julie leaves Mel, my new roommate from Iceland, and I are moving upstairs. I’m happy to move upstairs because the bathrooms are a little nicer and the rooms are A LOT nicer. There’s more space and more light and less bugs.

I haven’t told you about the showers yet. The girl’s shower is on the first floor. There are two showers separated by a metal wall. They only give us hot water after 4:30pm so if you want to shower before lunch you get a cold shower. Sometimes if I’m lucky they forget to turn off the hot water and there’s hot water early in the mornings. The showers are kind of gross, there’s flies all over and tons of spiders and mosquitoes. I don’t mind the spiders because they are in the corner and they eat the nasty flies.

I have power training tomorrow and the mountain run Friday. Wish me luck.

Xoxo, Kc