2010 in Reflection

I can’t decide if 2010 has been a very short year, or a very long one.

In lots of ways it seems to have flown by. We put the decorations up last week and it didn’t feel like a week had gone by since I was putting them in the boxes after taking them down last year, but that feeling seems to be stronger and stronger each year. Maybe it’s just my getting older and not remembering as many things in-between? 🙂

I started the year by coming to terms with the fact that I’d passed my Dan grading, which was quite hard to get my head around after just four years of training. From a Tang Soo Do point of view it’s been a real year of change for me. I’ve gone from trying to cram everything into my head and learn, learn, learn, to having my own class and trying to get all of that stuff out and taught to other people. As it’s only a small class at the moment, it still doesn’t really feel like ‘my club’ as such, it still feels like I’m filling in for someone else. I think it’ll change next year when I’m able to get back into regularity and get some more people through the door, I don’t think six or seven sessions is enough to go by. My own training has slowed down a little, mostly due to losing a session a week through teaching my class, but it’s given me a bit of a kick up the backside to train for myself as much as I can. I competed at the European Championships and did well, then later in the year wen to the British and did a lot worse, so again, ups and downs. Overall though, it’s been a good year in Tang Soo Do for me.

Summer started early as I headed to Spain in the first week of June with 11 others for a week in the sun in a private villa, and it was absolute bliss. It feels like a lifetime ago now, but it was so good. Spending a week with your friends relaxing, far away from normal life is a real tonic. The rest of summer in the UK was actually pretty good weather-wise, we got loads of barbecues in and managed to enjoy some unusually warm weather. The house is still being finished up (it’s taking a loooong time) but with the help of some friends who were willing to work for beer, I managed to get the shed moved which previously was blocking loads of light from the living room. I went along to the first ISK Summer Camp which was very hot and very, very tiring, but a lot of fun, and I also finally got around to buying myself a bike and started cycling.

Unfortunately autumn and winter (so far) weren’t quite up the rest of the year for me, it was frankly a very, very low time. I won’t go into details here, people who know me well already know, but suffice to say if I never have to repeat that all again it’ll be too soon. Onwards and upwards though, only a few more days left at work and then I retire like a bear to his den, only in this case my den is going to be the sofa. I’m going to eat, drink, relax and refresh myself for 2011. Something tells me it’s going to be a good year, despite the fact I have a strange inbuilt instinct that odd-numbered years are going to be rubbish. Maybe that’s just because I equate even-numbered years with either the Olympics or the World Cup, and next year we have neither. I have issues 🙂

See you all in 2011 (unless I get bored next week and update again 😉 )

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