Karate
For as much as I think about things, I totally overlooked something very obvious involving Karate. Lil' shipmate and I take together and now I'm going to be testing for my next belt soon and when I get it, I'm going to have to go to a different/later class. The class is an hour later. That would have us up at the Rec for 2 hours- that seems too long. Shipmate is only 5 years old, so I don't know how well he'd do sittin' and watchin'. Now I'm thinkin' about quitting, at least until he gets closer to testing for the later belt (which won't be for at least another year).
So, my options are to switch from Karate and work out in the weight room while he does his Karate or sit and watch him. I am thinkin' about looking into other classes going on at the same time too. Sitting and watching doesn't sound appealing, I LOVE watchin' my lil' Karate Kid but I want to "help" him too much and he doesn't really like that. Besides, now that I've done Karate, I wouldn't want to be on the sidelines. Besides, I'm not a sidelines kind-of Mom anyway.
Not to mention I'm LOVING the physical side of Karate, I would hate to miss out on that too. It is only $27 a month so quitting all together isn't going to save me tons of money so while it would be nice to cut some spending, I'm not sure this would be worth the cut?
Any advice?
posted by Krit @ Monday, August 22, 2005
2 Comments:
I don't know either, I'm in the same dilemma you are, but time wise. Everyone leave comments please.
Well I spoke with Mrs. Henry from Karate and she said she could adjust the schedule with the 6pm class versus the 7pm class. I found myself disappointed (and confused, she wasn't very clear like usual).
I think maybe I just don't want to do Karate right now. Kole isn't at a point where we can do it together (and won't be for at least a year) so the Parent/Child portion is not really there like I had hoped.
I LOVE doing the physical portion of it still but fighting is really my thing. I don't really want to pretend like I'm trying to gouge your eyes out for example. Yuck. Plus I’m good at kicking but all those back kicks have me lookin’ a fool. I don’t like lookin’ a fool.
Besides that, I'm not as good at it as I'd like to be in just in general. My dance background only helps to a degree and really is more of an obstacle in other ways, why not do something that compliments my dance history instead of being at odds with it ya know?
So I called the Recreation Center to see what else was going on at Cliff Nelson at 6pm and they said step aerobics. Then they said you can take endless aerobics and kickboxing classes- PLUS you can use the weight room too for JUST $23 a month. To me that is a GREAT VALUE. I have always wanted to do kickboxing. And using the weight room would be cool and I can fit it all into my schedule and when my schedule changes, I’ll just take different classes.
The belly dancing sounds fun but I think I'm more looking for mindless exercise that I don't have to practice and that I have a variety of choices to chose from.
Does that make sense?
So here's my problem, I don't want Big K to quit and I'm afraid he might lose interest when I'm not there, McFunny and offspring won’t be there either, etc etc. Then again he does seem to have some other friends. I’m fairly sure he’d stick with it.
Then there’s the fact that I will feel stupid facing the teachers. I’ll feel like a quitter and I'm not, I just go into something that hasn't really met my needs but still...
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