With a bit of trepidation and a lot of excitement in anticipation, we met up with Master Ryan (his Anglicised name) for our 3 hour taekwondo lesson. Without much experience of martial arts, or none to be precise, we didn’t really know what to make of it when we were kitted out in our rather fetching outfits and began with some stretching. This progressed to jumping, and some rather poor attempts at following our master. Then some blocking (14 different techniques quickly mastered) followed by loads of kicking, where Ed realised just how un-supple he is. He taught us a bit of self-defence, using Ed as a guinea pig; advice to potential muggers of our master is simply don’t do it. Finally we had a chance of some sparring, Gemma vs master, Ed vs master and
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