At 2pm today, I got down on the floor and began the typical Saturday class long stretches routine. Back into kung fu. Back into shape. Back into the future. Sifu had a separate set of stretches for me when it came time for leg warmups, as my left knee is very weak and not up to the normal sequence. Once class proper started I did my best to keep up (again I suspect with Sifu somewhat tailoring exercises to avoid pounding/twisting on my knee, although we did start out sparring...boy, I couldn't remember many strikes). But as we closed in on an hour of class, some of us were doing the shinai form, and as I turned and twisted (and struggled to remember the moves), I felt my knee start to give up the ghost. So at that point I raised the white flag and just sat on the sidlines for the next hour plus and watched. Not only is my knee weak, but my foot is still numb and cramps, and my wind is almost non-existent.
It's going to be a long, slow, and painful road back...
