Birthday “bash” at shootfighters – malleshwaram.

Typical birthdays without shootfighters – Wake up early in the morning, visit the temple, go attend the “surprise” party thrown by my friends, receive two to three self acclaimed modest rounds of birthday bumps, lunch and movie in the afternoon, evenings with family and nights by replying to mails and copy pasting ‘thank you’ messages on facebook and orkut!

This November 7^th birthday with shootfighter – woke up earlier than i would (makes me wonder why I slept even!) cuz I had to visit the temple first thing in the morning and then attend the 7 am class at the malleshwaram centre! Anyway so I finish all that in the morning and reach a little late to class to find no one there!! First it made me wonder if they were planning an ambush attack on me then it struck me that aki has taken everyone to sankey tank for parkour! So I put on my shoes again and trotted my way to sankey tank to be greeted by an early morning drizzle. I started jogging in the direction we usually do and after a couple of meters I found aki leading a pack of panting guys and jumping over the obstacles near the jogging track. After a nice greetings and wishes we got back to the grinding and proceeded towards the side wall which is about 8ft high topped with 2ft of railings. We were to scale that wall by practicing to kick into the wall and other techniques. Ok now I swear, if any of my family members (esp my grandmom who goes for her morning walk in sankey) would’ve seen me be a monkey they would’ve banished me from attending classes forever! Anyways so fighting these mental thoughts off i completed the task 5 times (as assigned) with enough minor bruises to last me a month to heal them off and enough stains on my new tshirt which would take a couple of washes to clean up – Was awesome fun never the less! We did a few more parkour things and jogged back to the centre which now seemed a lot more scarier than usual – you’ll know why soon

After a good healing session aki called off the class and promptly closed the door and started to take the attendance of the class. Made me feel like a trapped little lamb. After a few moments THE moment was here – birthday bumps! Ok for all those who think you get it nicely on your hind side – u must get a dose of this. On a regular basis birthday bumps is given by connecting with the instep and by un conditioned shins with a decent amount of force. But here it was a different story altogether! – round house kicks, well conditioned shins, eager and savage monster turned class mates, me hanging mid air – u get the picture!?!? Man I had jitters of the never ending kicks crackling through my bones for more than 20 seconds. The guys and aki were happily taking turns and kicking as though completing a tribal sacrifice ritual! Makes you really wonder as to why you were born in the first place The only bright side was that I was left with a “well conditioned” red hot lower back side!

The rest of the day was pretty much the same as I expected it would be like. It was a lovely memorable day with one heck of a mental ‘kick’ start to it!