31) Try a new sport

It's probably become apparent before now that I quite like sport. Ok, like may be falling a bit short. And that's why seeing five sports live is becoming a challenge as I've watched and participated in quite a lot of sports. That would be a downside to living and working at a national sports centre for three years!

As time ticked on I thought what could be practical and eventually fell upon something which fitted into quite a lot of things.

Just Jhoom.

Yes exactly. It went through my mind too. But as I was having a day of Jness within my weekend of being away (see a number of birds and one stone) I felt it was a new physical activity not done before and one I could rope my friends into too. Well it's dull if you take on these challenges just by yourself!

So I roped in the girls. I did forewarn them, then went ahead and booked the class (well I paid so they can only moan so much! But it was something none of them had done before - Just Jhoom is a Bollywood dance class!

A vague attempt at Just Jhoom

We trundled down to the Jardin des Sports at Center Parcs and made our way to the class. The teacher was very nice and even let my mate without a pass join in (although due to her head injury had to keep sitting out!) and took pics of the assembled groups before the class.

We could all don a jingling bell wrap around to get in the move and we got taken through the basic hand moves so we'd know when to do palms or bees and then the moves. Each song we did more moves, and sometimes we even followed them.

It was a bit like an aerobics class to an extent (so no good for me - how can I be co-ordinated enough(ish) for netball but not this!) but with extra moves and hand gestures to get the real Bollywood feel. It was fun, at times I did feel I was doing some vague sort of dancing, but not sure if that was at the time Rachel made me drink some Jinro (like sake) or my own water! It can have that effect! But most importantly we did a bit of exercise and had some fun, even if we did have a dark walk back to the villa afterwards!

Oh and even better, the dance teacher couldn't believe we were here for my 40th and said it was more likely to be my 30th. Fantastic, I'll take that every day!

Well we gave it our best shot!