Karate kid
My new hobby, started last night, is Shotokan karate.
I'm pleased to say I haven't been left with any bruises after my first lesson, but my left shoulder is feeling rather stiff today, which probably has more to do with the fact that I haven't done much physical exercise in such a long time than any violent blows I may have suffered (or inflicted).
I tried to impress my daughter this morning with a pivoting kick I'd learned, but she seemed to find the sight of me spinning round - and nearly falling over in the process - too hilarious for words. As did her mother, for some reason.
Clearly, Master Funakoshi Gichin wasn't joking when he wrote in his Twenty Precepts of Karate that "Karate training requires a lifetime".