29th August 2015

Today I woke up earlier than yesterday, although not sleeping any earlier (3-3.30am) it seems to be a inbuilt response to karate days, however Sensei left for his trip to Europe this morning so the normal classes won't be happening for a while. However I still wanted to train and not spend the whole day being lazy again so decided with James we would train in the office. 

Started around half 11 and decided after a warm up we would work up through all 18 kata a couple of times each. 

This gave us a pretty good sweat in itself, it's hard and very hot here recently! 

Still- there's a huge reminder why we are training right here! 

Something silly like 56 days until karate day!! 

That would mark my year here too- been incredible and has flown by! 

Then we got talking and as I've said a lot recently I want to try something new to do alongside my karate, I think I have a firm enough base in karate to be able to enjoy and benefit from new stuff. 

So, we decided to work on groundwork mainly judo/ jujitsu style. 

After three hours of training, my minds made up- I so need to learn this more. It was a lot of fun and potentially will just make me that bit more lethal ;) 

Lots of sweating, lots of chokes, lots of locks. I think It would complement my karate perfectly! 

Then downstairs to prep for our giant summer bbq tomorrow! 

There's gonna be a LOT of good food and a lot of fun. 

Finally, my treat of the day. James bought me a sugar cane. 

Gonna spend the night chewing sugar. 

I'm cool like that.