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Grr. Grrrrr. -Snarl-
I. HATE. Sparring. Class.

BUT, I have to take the class at least THREE TIMES every testing period for Taekwondo. -Spazm-

NOT ONLY are there SMALL CHILDREN in that class that I have the so-called *privilage* to spar with, but I get no. Time. At all. To spar. With. Anybody that I. Can actually. SPAR WITH. Without. Having. To. Resist.

-Sigh-

It's like, my instructor lines a few of us up along one wall, and then the rest of us go through in a line and spar with the people on the wall. I'm usually one of the people on the wall. So, I get multiple people [there are like, 3O people in the sparring class alone] coming through the line that I'm either not ready to fight, or I resist fighting because they're just kids [seriously, some are like, FIVE years old]. That takes roughly fifteen minutes out of an hour.

And THEN, I only get time to spar one-on-one with somebody maybe ONCE--or, if I'm lucky, TWICE--for thirty seconds before I'm forced to sit out of the ring and just watch. Literally, I get to sit and WATCH for the full half an hour that I don't get to spar.

Honest-to-God, I am the only person in that whole class that doesn't spar for real more than, like, ONCE per sparring class. And yet, there are some people that go up about SIX TIMES. Wtf? Can you say, "Ignored"?

I guess I should talk to my instructors about this, but really, I don't think anything would change. I mean, there are at least 3O people in that class.

-Sigh- FML moment.