So Saturday was the first day in the Dojo after I saw the doctor about my diagnosis of COPD. I need to have a chest X-ray to determine how things are, and have been put on a mild steroid inhaler and Ventolin for a month so see how things improve. I got these on Thursday, so this session was the first time I have trained since I started taking the lesson.
The first half of our Saturday's lesson was, with grading coming up, all fundamentals and Kata. There were one or two pull outs I made, but I think there was a little improvement there. However, the last half of the lesson was new territory. I have previously only done a few sessions of sparring, up to about 90 seconds, but our visiting Sensei, in response to the request to "do something interesting" gave us 180 second sessions until the close.
I actually managed around one and a half minutes of the first session, and after that we changed partners. I had to miss the session after that, but had a go at the remaining 5 or 6 sessions, one a slowly but more accurate basis. Again generally lasted about 2 to 2 and a half minutes, but still struggled for breath towards the end of each.
Initially, I was somewhat disappointed at what I had done; but then I thought back to the last time I had sparred it was for 90 seconds full on and this time I managed around 150 seconds. Add to that, having never sparred for more than one session before, I had put myself in uncharted territory.
On that reflection i think that, with or without the help of my new medication, I have actually managed to improve 😊😊😊. So now the judgement on the effectiveness has to be put on hold, and it remains time to keep on taking my medication and carry on practicing Karate.
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