I started a Krav Maga program today. More specifically, I tried a related class at a school which offers Krav Maga, which I’ll start in a couple of days. The class tonight was called something like “Ultimate Bags”. Basically, you have high intensity music blaring while you do very specific punching and kicking sequences on a 150lb bag. It’s a lot of fun, but man, is it hard work! The idea is to build strength and stamina while reinforcing good KM technique. Given that I don’t use many of my muscles very often aside from scuba, I’m about dead right now. Tomorrow morning I’ll probably feel like lead.
Anyways…for the actual KM class, men are encouraged to wear a cup. KM is a particularly violent martial art designed for close quarters combat with immediate disablement or defense in mind. As one of the instructors says, “it’s heavy on the martial and low on the art.” So, there’s lots of nuts getting kicked, hit, and elbowed in this program. I wore a cup one time in my life when I was like 11 in Peewee football. I have no idea how they’re supposed to fit. Well, I do know generally how they’re supposed to fit: the contraption is pretty straight forward.
Nevertheless, the cup sticks waaaaaaaaay out, almost like I have kitten or something in my underwear. I feel stupid. So I turn to Google. Google knows everything. It reassures me when I’m lost. It answers my questions when all 1.5 of my friends don’t know. Today, however, it failed me. I typed in “how should a cup fit”, and received zero replies.
Apparently, I am the first person on the internets to type the expression “how should a cup fit?” Yay me!
So, until I can ask another adult male how my apparently complex male protection device should work, I’ll just have to put off going to class I guess. *sigh* What a dark day in my life.
