Kung Fu

     So last Sunday, I went to my weekly kung-fu class. Of course, I went for two hours again. It was fun alright, but strenuous nontheless. Normally, my kung-fu classes are made up of stretches and practicing forms, but last Sunday, it was much harder.
     For the first hour, I went to I ran suicides, stretched, and did flips. Normally, all we do is stretch and do some kicks. From the beginning of that day's class, I can tell that it wasn't going to be a laid back, fun day at all. The length we had to run for suicides were only around fourteen feet back and forth, ten times. When we thought we were done, our sifu made us run again, this time, around fourty feet back and forth, around eight times. We were already exhausted and were only around 45 minutes into our two hour class.
     For the next fifteen minutes, I was stretching. All we did was push each other down and stretch each other until our legs and arms burned with pain. We paired up with people the same height as us and did one hundred sit-ups. We have to run two more laps to let our muscles get warmed up. All this, and we still had around 45 minutes of class left. we ended up doing jump inside kick, fall down, pop up combo and cartwheel, step, jump inside kick, fall down, pop up combo for the rest of the time. first, we were separated into two groups, one high belts and one low belts. Low belts went first. They had to do jump inside kick, fall down, pop up combo ten times and whoever finished last would have to do it again. Then it was the high belt's turn, which included me. We had to do it ten times as well. When we were done, we had to do it one by one. If we didn't do it well, we would have to do it again and again until it was approved by our sifu.
     Then, we did cartwheela. It was a one step, late touch, round up cartwheel where you start standing facing you're right, then just put your arms down and flip yourself doing a half no hand cartwheel, but towards the end, touching the ground for support, and landing on both of your feet at the end. In order to do this, you had to swing your legs very quickly. We had to do this ten times and whoever finished last would have to do something extra. Thank god I didn't finish last. After this, we did cartwheel (late touch, round up) and then jump inside kick, fall down, pop up. These two combos were meshed into one and we had to do it directly after each other. This isn't considered hard at all. In fact, it is considered very easy, but we were conditioning, so it was more tiring than hard. We did this ten times and did them individually again.
     As proven, that day wasn't exactly what I would call a laid back day, but still. Kung fu is a stress reliever and a very fun form of exercise for me.