Well, maybe I will - I keep promising myself a Christmas present of a reasonably good keyboard, only I haven't found one yet that simulates the pressure of a real piano well enough yet (that I can afford).
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Last night's class was actually testing. Not as big a group as there was at the first testing - there was one each of 6th, 5th and 4th kyu, and two of prerequiste to advanced weapons testing.
I was supposed to test for 6th kyu last night but declined because I'm still useless at ukemi. I wanted to hold off and test in December, but my sensei isn't having any of that - I have to test in September, she says, and that's that. I'll fail, of course, because of my poor ukemi skills, but I guess a "test" test is warranted, just to see if I know the techniques.
It was brutally hot in the dojo even with both doors open and two fans going. During one of the weapons tests, a belligerent drunk happened to look in and started making all sorts of rude comments, especially about the person being tested, who happened to be female. When he started talking about things I guess I shouldn't mention for the under-16 crowd that might be reading this, that's when our sensei got up and went out to speak to him. She tried being reasonable at first, but even her patience wore thin and she eventually had to shut the door, which made the dojo even warmer. When the guy started banging on the window, one of our bigger, male black belts went out to deal with him. He got the point, and vamoosed.
(There were about thirty students in the class watching the testing - what did the guy think - he could take us all on if we decided to confront him in force?)
I had to give credit to the person being tested, though. It was an awful distraction to have to deal with.
But it was fun watching the testing. The worst part about watching the testing is having to sit (and forget about sitting seiza, which technically we're supposed to do) for the whole process. My stiff hip was protesting within the first 15 minutes and I was in an agony of pain by the end of it.