{"id":14839,"date":"2009-05-21T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14839"},"modified":"2009-05-21T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:47:23","slug":"live-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/live-and-learn.html","title":{"rendered":"Live and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Hey, Dave, you just stumbled and bumbled and mumbled your way through your karate belt exam! What are you gonna do now?&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to Disney World!&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ISKF Mountain States logo\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/iskf-rockymtns-tiger.gif\" width=\"120\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe it wasn&#8217;t quite as bad as all that. But I felt stiff and tired, and I made a few small goofs in my <em>kata<\/em>, and some series bumbles in my <em>kihon <\/em>(basics), and couldn&#8217;t kick decently to save my life, and did only mediocrely on my <em>kumite <\/em>(sparring).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a disappointing performance, for myself most of all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back in class in a week, to continue learning (and get official confirmation of my own assessment above). Getting back on the horse, and all that, is the actual important lesson here. That one, at least, I think I can learn. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, Dave, you just stumbled and bumbled and mumbled your way through your karate belt exam! What are you gonna do now?&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;I&#8217;m going to Disney World!&#8221;&nbsp; Or something like that. Well, maybe it wasn&#8217;t quite as bad as all that. But I felt stiff and tired, and I made a few small goofs in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/live-and-learn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Live and learn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/chop.html","url_meta":{"origin":14839,"position":0},"title":"Chop!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Feb-08 7:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We don't actually learn how to chop bricks in two in karate (at least, not in the karate classes I'm in). 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