I’m in Blackpool at the moment, so this blog was written last Thursday.

Last year at this time of year I was also in Blackpool for the week, I got home on the Monday, and started my very first ninJA session on the Tuesday .. 

Which means that the next session I go to will be my second year of ninJA …

This made me think about how much ninJA has affected me in the past year of my life…

It has meant that every single Tuesday and Thursday night has been given over to ninJA training.. I live a long way from where I train, so by the time I’ve trained and got home it’s too late to do anything.  Two nights a week is a lot to give up, but ninJA rocks!

My pain threshold has gone up incredibly .. it’s really noticeable when training with baby ninJA (the guys that started this academic year) that what hurts them does nothing to me, WrongMark and the other ninJA.  It is hard to stress just how much my pain threshold has changed.  Yay me! ;p

I am muchly fitter, when I first started, doing ‘full bastards’ (definition below) would nearly kill me … now I manage to stay conscious.

When I miss a ninJA session .. I really miss it .. without ninJA’s to fight, I have urges to hit and kick inanimate objects.

In conclusion, ninJA has made me less sociable, fitter, able to ignore pain, and given me irresistable urges to hit things… which worryingly is starting to sound like the typical profile of a psychopath.

Definition of ten full bastards:

1 press up
1 squat thust
1 squat
1 star jump
1 sit up
2 press ups
2 squat thusts
2 squats
2 star jumps
2 sit ups
3 press ups
3 squat thusts
3 ..

All the way up to 10.. which may not seem a lot written down, but by the time you get to five you’ve done 55 of each of the 5 parts of the exercise .. it’s a real killer.

At the last grading they had to do 17 full bastards just as the warmup before the grading actually begun..