I am so so tired and also hungry god escrima was not easy to get through in the heat tonight, even one of my training partners was like "I'm gonna stick with the other guy for now, you look like you need a drink" at one point
^ most exhausted sweat-covered girl in London!! Like literally the difference in colour at the bottom of my shirt is not a trick of the light it's just fucking soaked, and the combination of training and my weird circulation/temperature regulation really did turn my fingers (on the lower hand) that red it's not my camera messing with the colours
So yeah it was a hot day with a lot of people in the class and we had our first proper evening with a tonfa, and tonfas are hard work - they're heavier than our usual sticks, the shield grip is best used with a lot of speed and intensity, and the sword grip just takes a lot of thought and care on how to use it effectively and to be honest my brain was not really at its sharpest for that, I definitely could've done all that better on another day
Like tonfa's fun, at least so far, because learning a completely new weapon is always gonna be interesting, but god this was not the day I'd pick for it for multiple reasons