i got to fiqah’s house later than i said i would but i was still early…….. that was thursday morning, the morning of the first of the two days of latihan pusat. i was excited and a little scared, lol…. i do like silat and i do wish i could train evryday or somethin but i know that i’m outta shape, have lotsa fat and that i can’t stretch very much can’t stretch… neways, i’m gonna go back to those first crucial moments in fiqah’s house…
(caution : this is going to be a very long post, i’ve warned you and if you’re brain hurts, do NOT read on)
i’m sitting in the errr…. living room and we’re late and not even sure if we’ll go now and maybe we’re only going closer to 1pm…. fiqah is drawing me a map and telling me to tell the pakcik where to drive….. i’m stuffing my face with cheese tempura nuggets (i disgust me)…… pakcik is here and we’re gettin ready to go….. we’re on the road and the morning talkshow is hilarious…. we’re here! my stomach feels unsettled…. we’re goin up da stairs and cikgu nizam asks us to hurry up…. we’re inside and very late (warm up has started and is advancing) but it’s not cikgu nizam, it’s some green belt dude!….. qistina and i hurriedly warm up and join in the class warm up….. THE TORTURE BEGINS!!!!!! so we’re doin warm ups and by now it’s considered over so alif (the dude in da green belt, lol) tells us to lari setempat and so we do but he gives it a little twist later on, he tells us to put our arms at or chest and we’ve got to lari stempat and our knees have to reach our arms. there were more stuff too, like the lari bukit one where we’re on our knee in the starting a race position then we have to make like we, we panjat bukit and then we did more lari setempat we had to lari then lari cepat2 then slow again then fast again on and off and on and off, then we had to stay in the push up position (men’s push up) for three minutes i think, i suckd! lol, i was sweating by now and i wasn’t just sweating, i looked like a source for spring water, lol, i mean sweat was pouring down the sides of my face and arms like i was taking a bath! but i wouldn’t mind doing it everyday cause it’s so fat burning!!! i’d probably be fat free in a two month or so of daily training… *sigh* neways, after all o that, cikgu nizam told us to sit according to our schools, and in our line it was jus me, qistina and wani (lovely smile still adorning that pretty face) and cikgu nizam askd us to choose between silat olahraga, solo and tempur (i think that’s how it’s spelled) for anyone reading this who doesn’t noe wat all these mean, i’m gonna explain and if you know well, read only lah, re-education, lol
silat olahraga is where we fight an opponent in a match, some call it sparring, it’s the one where u see us fight and scratch and bite etc (the last two aren’t allowed, juz trying to give u an image) and try to get as many point to win over our opponent. solo is when we re-enact a battle, but it’s only performed by one person, so it’s not a real fight it’s just one person leaping around the gelanggang trying to make it look like they’re really getting beat up by some invisible person (no off, lol) and points are given based on how real you look, so you gotta be able to act. tempur is the same as solo but it’s two ppl (i dunno if there’s more) so it supposed to look like a real fight but it’s fake but i dunno, if the participants reali hate each other or are extremely enthusiastic, you can fight for real… but we don’t really fight, we just choreograph the moves and make it look real etc. so now that you know roughly wat we’re supposed to do, i’ll go on, wani opted for silat olahraga and i really do NOT think i can do solo, lol! so, qistina and i decided to do tempur (thx qistina!) and we were soooooooooooooooooooooooo blur cause we didn’t noe how to make up the moves (at least i was sooooooooooooooo blur) and we jus tried to anyway and soon wnuf we came up with our 1st set, sry to say, it was a bit on the lame side but for our situation bak then, it was a stroke of genius! neways, we did our set and later we got da help of abg hafiz (thx abg hafiz) and he totally reconstucted our sets save a last few moves and my brain was so warped by now that qistina had to remind me our moves (sry…) but it was ok…. next we had to make our second set and again abg hafiz helpd us and we had quite nice sets except i was so scrambled brained that qistina had to keep reminding me (so sry…) neways we were quite tired by the end of day one… day two: we reach early causetempur is only supposed to start after lunch and it’s only like nine in da morning (after lunch here means 2.30pm) neways, qistina and i worked on our sets for a lil while but for some reason we were reali tired dat afternoon, sigh, that’s where evrything started goin wrong for me…. aftr warm-ups cikgu nizam made us do garang and marah faces… then he taught us two sets, one where one person stabbed and slashed at the other person than the other person catches the hand, jatuhkan the person then the jatuh peson (on da flr/attacker) pulls the other one down which then the dude responds by pulling his/her hand back which takes the other person off balance and then sapu the person and try to like smash his/her chest with the heel and another set lar, (malas nak cerita, sry) the other set was the buah mati which means it’s the set that one of the ppl are killd and so ends the whole thing…. neways, i was tired which of course made worsew the stupidity that my brain runs under, i was sooooooo blurrrrr!!!! i couldn’t remember anything properly and i was all over the place (oh gawd, i’m SOOOOOOOOOO sry qistina, i swear, i wish i was less blur-er and stupid-er)…. it was a disaster, i was soooooooo sad and dissapointed in myself, i mean it’s ok if it was solo or sumthin but i brought my partner down with me! qistina was good and cause of me……… well you get the pic, i was so dissapointed in myself and i was seriously re-contemplating my reasons for joining silat in the first place and re-thinking my thoughts on wheter i could really do this………. thankfully qistina isn’t mad at me, eventhough she has EVERY right to and if she was, i wouldn’t blame her…… *sigh* i disgust me, i’m such a wimp! neways, day after, my limbs hurt like hell! my right calf, my left thigh my shoulders and my arms…. i can’t believe how weak my body is! i mean i’m bloody fat and my body even without those fats is bloody thick so, my muscles should be able to cope with some work rite? but what does it do? start to complain and hurt all over! WIMP! ask fiqah, i actually scolded my right calf for being such a wimp, althi fiqah was a little preoccupied at the time (sry, i was being a pain, man!) so…. nvm that’s abt all i have to say abt that……… if i said commited any factual errors, forgive me, my brain is a little scrambled…… i would like to issue a formal apology to all who were present at any time or place where i was present because as is apparent to me now, i’m an idiot and that experience must’ve been torture.. so forgive me if you can, i was young and foolish! ends…..