Moving Forward Under Load

I've been having some great moments at the Kwoon lately and I'm sure there is plenty to come. Changing my perspective and perhaps to a degree, I have gotten over myself and I am feeling myself gravitating towards a very positive place. So much going on right now, and to be honest, I love it. This is going to sky rocket my engagement to extraordinary levels. Pushing myself to the extreme is what I need to do to accelerate my well being and my character back to where it needs to be and being able to be at the kwoon as much as I am able is going to be the key.

I am continuing the pursuit of optimal fitness level and being able to lead a fair amount of warm ups lately is helping a lot. The students are doing awesome and they keep the energy high. So doing this together with my fellow students just makes it that much better and motivates me to be more creative and push harder.

Form reps has been my go to place to cover a high number of basics and new discoveries. As I have said before if you don't have a lot of time, forms are the best part of your training to use if you want to cover a lot of areas by doing one thing. Forms cover all of your core needs; stances, kicks, techniques, technique completion, timing, muscle building, and mental exercise, focus, breathing..... you get the picture I'm sure.

As far as my weapon form goes, well to be honest, everything up until last Friday I hated. In fact I hated every part of it so I scrapped the whole form, smashed it to pieces, and started from scratch. The timing couldn't have been worse, but I always say, if not happy doing something, change it or don't do it. So, I changed it. I feel a lot better with what I have now and what you seen last Friday was about half of my new form. I have the rest of it almost pieced together and I am in a much better place physically and mentally with my weapon. I will have to work very hard at it in order to get any where near 1000 reps, but I'm up for it. Me and "MINE" is going to blow some minds. Well that's the goal anyway.

Last but not even close to least is my five personal techniques. Due to circumstances out of my control, I had to take on a new partner. Lot's of work to do here, different guy, different build.... well different everything. Teaching the techniques, the timing, reactions, stuff not working the same is all a great learning curve and helps me really learn a lot about the fundamentals and efficiency of these techniques and an education in, "holy crap are these going to actually work?!?!" Whatever. The bottom line is I am very happy that Mr. Sand has offered to work with me and I feel very confident about it all. He's great to work with and offers honest feed back and helpful suggestions. Things are rolling ahead and that's all that matters.

Aside from a whole pile of other things, that's basically what's going on as of late. See you at the Kwoon.