I WOULD LIKE SOME CAKE, PLEASE. No one I know here is having birthdays, dammit.

Nilly is a taunter. Pass it on.

My krav time breaks down into three categories: classes I take just for me, classes I teach or assist in, and mandatory instructor classes. This week kicks off the instructor classes for brown belt -- and it'll be tough. For all the previous levels, I was learning to teach stuff I'd already tested on. This time, although it's all stuff I've learnt before, I've never demonstrated mastery even at the student level.

So it'll be humbling.

Cute shoes!

Why do I click? WHY? I should know better by now.

ita, you have to learn how to teach a level you haven't passed yet? That seems ass-backwards somehow.

Aerosole's servers refuse to exist for me.

you have to learn how to teach a level you haven't passed yet? That seems ass-backwards somehow.

It makes the test a two-fer. I get my brown belt, but I have to demonstrate enough mastery to be able to teach it too. Since our group is only teaching/assisting through green belt (though we've done blue too), it's not like we'll be called on to lead classes on the material, like, EVER (there are only two classes/week at that level).

I was the highest ranked candidate going in, so it took this long for the syllabus to catch up with what I know. Others have been doing it as two-fers all the way from yellow belt. I don't envy them even a little. They're all good, but it's stressful.

Aerosole's servers refuse to exist for me.

They want to keep you safe from the pretty pumps.

ita, no, really, come! I'll introduce you to soldiers who learn the Israeli-army krav, and, um, they're mostly between the ages of 18 and 21, and it's awefully hot and humid here. Oh, and we have those lemon cookies you liked so much last year!

And when you return, since most likely your plane will go through NYC, you can bring some cake to Jesse. And everybody will be happy.

This time, although it's all stuff I've learnt before, I've never demonstrated mastery even at the student level.

So you're learning to teach stuff that you yourself don't master yet? That sounds really complicated. [Edit: x-post, of course, with both Jesse's similar question and ita's quick answer. She has a krav teacher reflexes, after all.]

It makes the test a two-fer. I get my brown belt, but I have to demonstrate enough mastery to be able to teach it too.

Ah, that makes more sense, then.

I may have to go get some cake-like product, even though I already had chips.

I'll introduce you to soldiers who learn the Israeli-army krav, and, um, they're mostly between the ages of 18 and 21, and it's awefully hot and humid here. Oh, and we have those lemon cookies you liked so much last year!

Now, you really know how to pitch to me. I mean, you've hit on most everything there.

No cake for me, since I'm sweeted up with a chunk of the giant Nestle Crunch bar that wouldn't die. That should last me until about infinity.

I can't believe I have "Hooked On A Feeling" on my iPod. 82 songs from the 70s ranked three or more stars, and Blue Swede is one of them.

Here is how much I am avoiding doing work: I am currently involved in an email discussion with Jessica of Go Fug Yourself over some chick's outfit. I swear.

Cute shoes!

I have them in black, but they're painfully narrow for my feet, and I'm not sure they have any give.

ita, I was proselytizing to an LA-based kickboxing friend that he should try krav, because he's finding that kickboxing no longer provides much of a workout. But I wasn't sure that krav did, either.