In The Presence of Masters

Last nights Black Belt class was pretty amazing for me, like platinum awesomeness! I seen some faces I hadn't seen in a while and it was great to see and hear they are doing so well. I also had the opportunity to see a Sifu that was one of my teachers from white belt and I also was fortunate enough to be partnered up with him as well, so that was cool. Then Master MacDonald led the class, that's a pretty big deal and I'm very grateful to have been able to learn from him and hear his insights. Then we were applying the lessons that the class was shown and I was working together on the heavy bag with the Sifu I had mentioned, Sifu Hayes, and Sifu Dennis. Now to some this might not be such a big deal but to me it was a golden opportunity. One that I am also grateful for and I will cherish very much as these things don't line up very often.  It's so good to be back in class again.

Things are moving along well for me as I am letting the requirements do the driving, not thinking too much and just trying to get those tight muscles loose again and get my conditioning and form work back up to speed. The only thing I am going to do is change up a lot of the ways I do my push ups and ab work, there's a lot of muscle groups there to balance out and I was was never one for just concentrating on one. So things are moving along there well.

 I dusted off my Sais and went through the motions of familiarizing with them again and only stuck my foot a couple of times. I'm trying to recall my original form and most of it has come back so I will revise and build it from there by adding some different kicks and transitions.

That's about all I have this week, see you at the Kwoon.