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bloodygranuaile) wrote2009-04-09 11:15 pm
bloodygranuaile) wrote2009-04-09 11:15 pm
In Which Karate Club Is Driving Clare Mad
In list form!
1. Nobody is answering emails! I emailed the guy I was supposed to email to talk about the budget appeals process (since they don't tell you how to do it yourself--they sent out a "what to do it you wish to appeal" email and it didn't tell you what paperwork you needed, or anything. Just "contact these people and they'll help you"), and he never answered. So then I emailed Mike McKenna saying I knew I was running a bit late but I couldn't contact the people I was supposed to be contacting, what should I do, and he never answered either.
2. The people that are new this semester are all still resisting buying uniforms. Yes, by now it seems a little silly to buy the uniforms JUST for testing, but you could have bought them the first several times we told you you should, and then you'd have had it for the whole semester. Also, they last forever, so you're all set if you EVER want to do another martial art again in your LIFE, pretty much. Gyah.
3. We need new judo mats, and we have an opportunity to buy really good ones from the YWCA through Shihan at a discount (and no shipping charge! yay!). Keen assures me there is money left in the equipment fund, and I still have time to put in a special budget request, so theoretically we could buy them this year. One caveat: we are so not the only group that uses those mats, even though we own them. Budget people will get mad at us if we don't at least try to cosponsor, and unlike belt testing, where there's no reason any other group would have any incentive to do so, it WOULD be reasonable to ask whoever else uses the mats to pitch in a little. However, I have no idea who else is using them, and to find out I would probably have to email the gym or student programming or whoever, and if I do that and nobody answers I will be SUPER, SUPER PISSED OFF.
4. Why am I the only person that shows up with anything remotely approaching regularity anymore? I've only missed one karate session this entire semester--and even then I showed up, I just didn't stay 'cos my foot was in tatters. Everyone else shows up about half the time, at best.
5. Oh, wait, part of it's 'cos half the club is sick or injured, apparently. At least two people are already under doctor's orders to not come back this semester or test.
6. I still have the most inflexible ankles ever. Also: WTF, shins, why do you want me to not be able to fix my back stance? Stop complaining every time I bend my damn knees, kthxbai.
7. We are still almost never sparring. I will not stop sucking if I do not practice!
On upside: today, learned heian go dan. It's probably too close to testing to ask about what I'd need to do to skip a belt this semester, but I feel better. Maybe next semester. Maybe if they feel like teaching us how to fight one of these days, or something.
8. Too many maybes.
1. Nobody is answering emails! I emailed the guy I was supposed to email to talk about the budget appeals process (since they don't tell you how to do it yourself--they sent out a "what to do it you wish to appeal" email and it didn't tell you what paperwork you needed, or anything. Just "contact these people and they'll help you"), and he never answered. So then I emailed Mike McKenna saying I knew I was running a bit late but I couldn't contact the people I was supposed to be contacting, what should I do, and he never answered either.
2. The people that are new this semester are all still resisting buying uniforms. Yes, by now it seems a little silly to buy the uniforms JUST for testing, but you could have bought them the first several times we told you you should, and then you'd have had it for the whole semester. Also, they last forever, so you're all set if you EVER want to do another martial art again in your LIFE, pretty much. Gyah.
3. We need new judo mats, and we have an opportunity to buy really good ones from the YWCA through Shihan at a discount (and no shipping charge! yay!). Keen assures me there is money left in the equipment fund, and I still have time to put in a special budget request, so theoretically we could buy them this year. One caveat: we are so not the only group that uses those mats, even though we own them. Budget people will get mad at us if we don't at least try to cosponsor, and unlike belt testing, where there's no reason any other group would have any incentive to do so, it WOULD be reasonable to ask whoever else uses the mats to pitch in a little. However, I have no idea who else is using them, and to find out I would probably have to email the gym or student programming or whoever, and if I do that and nobody answers I will be SUPER, SUPER PISSED OFF.
4. Why am I the only person that shows up with anything remotely approaching regularity anymore? I've only missed one karate session this entire semester--and even then I showed up, I just didn't stay 'cos my foot was in tatters. Everyone else shows up about half the time, at best.
5. Oh, wait, part of it's 'cos half the club is sick or injured, apparently. At least two people are already under doctor's orders to not come back this semester or test.
6. I still have the most inflexible ankles ever. Also: WTF, shins, why do you want me to not be able to fix my back stance? Stop complaining every time I bend my damn knees, kthxbai.
7. We are still almost never sparring. I will not stop sucking if I do not practice!
On upside: today, learned heian go dan. It's probably too close to testing to ask about what I'd need to do to skip a belt this semester, but I feel better. Maybe next semester. Maybe if they feel like teaching us how to fight one of these days, or something.
8. Too many maybes.
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sounds like a shit show, like it always is
sorry you're the only one showing up/people are ridic/mike mckenna sucks at getting back to emails, for real, like, really bad, been there
i wanna say variant dance is one of the groups that uses the mats but i can't remember if that was the group that did/if they're the only ones. maybe you can leave a sign up in the dance room being like "ATTENTION WHOREFACES, whoever uses the mats we have the opportunity for new mats, if you'd like to cosponsor YOU SHOULD CAUSE YOU KEEP WRECKING OUR MATS" or something possibly slightly less belligerent but that is up to you and then like "email Clare!" or "write yo names on this sign, foo's"
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I think the difference here is that your "karate is driving me crazy" posts were largely about Shihan being a pain in the ass, and this time around Shihan is the only person who is not being a pain in the ass.
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I, erm, must disagree with you on the 'they last a lifetime' thing. I mean, when training gets down and dirty..and your gi becomes covered in sweat and blood on a pretty regular basis...yeah..need to replace every two years or so lol.
Not having good people to train with/spar with sucks. I've had that quite a few times in my karate career. Being the best in the dojo sometimes is kinda cool, until you realize that if there is no one better to work with you won't ever improve.
Heian go dan is probably my favorite of the (what you call) heians. Currently reworking on all of them because for second degree brown you must be able to do all of them. Perfectly. And then when you move on to the black belt test most times Sensei doesn't care about those and just makes you do all the upper level kata.
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And I'd be perfectly happy with a bad sparring partner, it's just... we don't do it at all. We spar like, once a month. It's so useless. And there has been at least one occasion where I've made Sensei promise we'd spar the next class, but then nobody else showed up except the very new people who haven't started yet.
Heian go dan is fun. :)