So, I'd done about a year of Tae Kwon Do training in my teens. I then took, oh, 15 years off for the marines, getting a career started, and various other stuff. During that fifteen years I maybe trained a total of two months. But I digress.
At my dojo, proficiency in multiple arts is... well, not only highly encouraged, but apparently mandatory. There's now a sign up in the dojo basically saying "Tae Kwon Do students: You must have basic judo and aikido skills to test for advanced belts." I'm paraphrasing, but the point is, you have to know basic judo and aikido to attain the higher tae kwon do belts. I think these requirements are new. But again, maybe they've always been there, and I'm just noticing.
So, in accordance with this policy, I took my first formal judo class this evening. It has left me with an impression I feel I should share. Judo is hard. I mean, (so far) it's not particularly hard technique wise, but then again, I'm a total beginner and I'm just learning basics. But the class is really really physically demanding. It felt like wrestling practice. I haven't been to wrestling practice in something like fifteen years. After class, I felt like I was going to die. My god what a workout.
I'm probably going to be hating life tomorrow.
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