Kickboxing is My Calling

Korrin B.

April 7, 2009 - 3:00 PM

Each term, the UO Recreation Center puts together a schedule of fitness classes offered at various times. Some of the choices include group cycling, fitness yoga, hip-hop, and basic step aerobics. You can buy a punch card for one, five, ten, twenty, or an unlimited amount of classes. Then, you just stop in whenever you want to one of the classes and get your fitness on! This is the first term that I have done this. I find it better than taking a PE class because it is cheaper, I don't have to worry about not showing up enough times to pass, I don't have to write some sort of paper to go along with it, and it offers a large variety of activities at more convenient times. When I looked at the Spring Term 2009 schedule of fitness classes, I knew exactly which one I wanted to go to the most - kickboxing.

I had taken kickboxing Fall Term 2007 and remembered loving it, but I wouldn't remember exactly how much I loved it until I walked into my first kickboxing class with my punch card this term. On Monday, I worked my butt off with a high-energy, amazing instructor named Heather. I was dripping sweat, feeling the burn in all of my muscles, and basking in the glory of endorphins.

I have taken other aerobics classes before, but there is nothing quite like kickboxing. Sure, they all give you a work out, but none of them make me feel quite as good. I just love the intensity of it and the aggression. For that fifty minutes that I am doing kickboxing, I do not have to think about anything else, in fact, I can't even if I try. I am focused and I love it. I can work out my feelings as my feet do a roundhouse kick and my arms strengthen into a side, hook, cross, uppercut punching combo.

There is just something about kickboxing that I love and I have to admit that my first kickboxing class was one of the happiest blocks of fifty minutes that I have had in the past week. I look forward to going on Wednesday as well and keeping it up throughout the term! It feels good to just move your body sometimes.

Monday reinvigorated my passion for kickboxing and I have officially decided that it is my calling in life. I might just give up everything and become a professional kickboxing queen. I mean, why not? You only live once, so why not follow your passion? I could totally see myself battling off evildoers with my incredible kickboxing skills in some action movie. Or maybe even see myself just high above on a mountaintop, practicing my kicks and breathing in the energy of the earth. Kickboxing is my calling, but I'll stick it out at the UO and get my degree first, I suppose...just in case the kickboxing job market turns out to not be so good.