Sweaty Ankles
As you may or may not know I do yoga. I try to go as often as possible to my gym's 6am yoga class. "As often as possible" usually means once during the week and on Sunday. There are three teachers at my gym and I like them all pretty well, but I like the two women that teach more than the man that teaches, mainly because he is a bit of a ball buster and I don't think ball busting and yoga go together too well. But other than the ball busting I think he's generally an ok guy.
So Friday classes are usually taught by one of the women I like, but she lives by the river and if you've been watching the news you know that my town is flooding. Well our house isn't flooded and actually if I just went from home to work to home again everyday without watching the news or reading the paper, I may not even know it's flooded in town. So we're safe, but many of the people whose homes flooded in 2005 are facing damage again, which really sucks and makes me feel bad for them.
So anyway - the woman I like wasn't teaching class today, the ballbuster guy was. And his classes are usually pretty tough. But today we did this one pose where you go into warrior III and one person pulls your wrists and another pulls your ankle. So ballbuster guy pulled my wrists and this other guy in the class I've never met before pulled my ankle. Which was weird because he could see the bottom of my foot and I kept thinking that I hadn't had a pedicure in forever and this is really personal space, etc. But I was generally ok with it. It was a nice little exercise. Then we switched and I had to pull on the stranger guy's ankle. And he was really sweaty. And I understand because like I said, Ball Buster's classes are hard. So I wasn't offended, but I didn't want to slip and send him flying into ball buster guy. Then when we were done with one of his ankles he handed me a towel and said "I know I'm sweating." Which made me feel bad because he seemed embarassed. Then we tried to do peacock which I suck at. So I said to mr. Ballbuster "I can't do peacock" and he pointed out that it was hard for women to do because they have to get their breasts out of the way. Great. So all-in-all it was a strange and uncomfortable morning.
There is my ridiculous story for you on this, the eve of the long holiday weekend.
Posted by jen at June 30, 2006 11:53 AM
Comments
I would have SO ixnayed the personal contact with sweaty ankle dude.....LOL!
Posted by: Scout at June 30, 2006 08:21 PM
When did yoga become a contact sport? I may have to reconsider joining you for yoga the next time I'm there on a Sunday. If I want to touch sweaty dude ankles, I'll just go run for an hour and touch my own.
Posted by: Jay T at July 1, 2006 08:11 AM
Dude. That looks hard. The sweaty ankles would totally gross me out too.
We do basic yoga in my triple fit class, and I SUCK SO HARD. You must teach me.
Posted by: Carrie at July 1, 2006 11:40 AM
i stopped going to a saturday kickboxing class because when we stretch at the end, the instructor forces us to buddy up. i've always had women, but there's just so, so much contact and we're all gross and sweaty. i ended up stressing the whole time about who my "partner" would be.
Posted by: carrie m at July 1, 2006 02:36 PM
6 am on a sunday? Dude - that's commitment.
I think I once tried (and failed at) doing the peacock - it is not for the novice, that's for sure.
Posted by: Maya at July 2, 2006 05:03 PM
OK, sweaty ankles of a stranger man is not cool. But then again at least you did not have to pull something else!
There are limits we must all abid by!
Posted by: Betsy at July 5, 2006 11:33 AM
The male yoga teacher sounded like a boob with that comment about the peacock pose. Just sayin'. =p
Posted by: Rossana at July 5, 2006 01:39 PM
Duuuuude. How can ANYONE do Peacock? Boobs or not?! That looks so hard.
Posted by: Stacey at July 5, 2006 03:03 PM
Ahhh - love yoga. We have it at work - talk about odd - doing crazy poses and then seeing the guy that was on the mat next to you in work later that day. I got a wink in the hallway - guess i look good doing my downward facing dog :)
Posted by: MF at July 6, 2006 09:00 AM
Great post - I've been dying to try yoga but let me tell you when I clicked on the PEACOCK link you had there I GASPED!! LOL no freakin' way a woman (or any human being) should be able to do that!! LOL Thanks for the laugh ;-)
Posted by: Esther at July 7, 2006 07:07 PM
