summer break

Another semester down, a few weeks before fall starts.  I have less on my mind, so I guess I'm blogging and ranting about my country on facebook again.  Doing two classes instead of four has it's pros and cons, but I think it's a good balance for now.  It means that I have enough energy to spare for MMA and that might even be more important.

Had a great muay thai class last night.  My shins and forearms are all bruised, got some great sparring in.  Against a woman who's roughly my equal in skill and weight, and one of the BJJ instructors who's about six feet tall and really wanted to practice his clinch work.

Sparring is the first of anything I've been doing that's pushed me so hard I've literally worried I might vomit by the end of it, but I love it.  I want to get back in there and figure out how to counter that instructor's clinch.  Clinching back harder and faster doesn't work well against a guy that big who knows what he's doing apparently, but I have a few other ideas.

Sometimes it's a chore, I don't feel like going, I have to push myself and then classes are disappointing for one reason or another.  It all depends on a number of variables, but then sometimes it goes well, and I realize that it's actually making me happy.  I've had really hard time finding much of anything else that does that.

Maybe fighting with people satiates my need for human connection better than trying to have a conversation does.