TortUre ChambeR

I was anxious to try out my new hakama ... so on tuesday i went down to cairhill CC to train... i arrived early to help out with the mats and got changed into my brand new DOGi while changing, David Sensei told me with a smile that after tying my hakama i can go back home... i didnt understand wat he met till later...

In my new dogi, i asked Ai sim and Eugene to show me how to tie my hakama... while i was struggling to tie it, in the coner of my eye i saw david sensei standing there smiling coz i was sweating as if i had just participated in a run...then i understood wat he meant just now....

First class, i had the opportunity to partner Armando's daughter, she's only 14. I thought that i was really out of shape coz i was damn tired half way thur the class... and i wasn't even going all out ... then suddenedly in the middle of a techque.. Armando's daughter told me that she needed to take a sit coz she was feeling breathless and seeing white... i brought her to the back of the class and asked her to sit down and i carried on training with the rest....

After the first class, i rushed down to get my self a can of 100+ and spoke a few words to Armado's daughter and headed back to class....

I had the chance to practise my break falls, kumi tachi and it was fun...JOng and Alex (new shodans like me) were there too...at the end of class David started smiling again.... in that instant i knew wat was to come....

He was going to conduct the Torture chamber , an introduction to what is to come in the future for all new shodans ... u can call it a graduation of sorts...

he called all the new shodans up and started throwing us
next he made everyone take turns to throw us ... each of us took around 20 high breakfalls, it was hellva fun... a night i will never forget...

after David sensei ended class he told us "back in his days, this was how it was done" and smiled.....