February 14, 2008

Kicking Myself

I am about 10 degrees away from being able to kick my own butt. That’s right. At physical therapy I hit 146 degrees this week. My PT said he could have made me hit 147; but I was already pretty much needing my mouth washed out with soap and the pillow just wasn’t cutting it as far as noise reduction goes. There were the ears of those who had recently undergone knee replacements to consider.

He measured my good leg and I can easily get to 155 degrees flexion. I have less than 10 degrees to go. Of course, I have to start being able to get there comfortably, but that’s a whole different story.

On Friday, I’ll be going to physical therapy again with hopes of getting into the very high 140’s. It was only months ago that I imagined I’d be up to something a bit more exciting on this coming Friday, February 15th. I had plans to travel to New Orleans, LA to test for my Shodan, and then the unthinkable happened on a night immediately after a friend and awesome martial artist told me I was "ready."

My instructors and at least one of my dojo friends are there. They’ll be working out in the company of stellar martial artists. They’ll be sampling the local cuisine. They’ll be attending a formal Yudansha test, where nervous 1st kyu’s will be showing their stuff like I had hoped to do. . .

I’ll be trying to kick myself in the butt.