250 push ups
250 sit ups
50 inside cyclones
50 outside cyclones
5 kempo reps
20 weapon form
5 km walked
With the demo coming close all of our forms have to be top notch. With this in mind I have a few bugs to work out but I don't want to over do reps. The form feels pretty good and at the moment I want to maintain but be mindful of the techniques that need a little tweek when I do some practice reps.
I'm seeing flexibility as being a hindrance to the advancement of my kicks and techniques when practicing forms. This has always been a struggle for me. So I will have to stretch a lot more frequently in order for my kicks to improve. If you only had to kick at knee level I would be awesome. My conditioning has to improve quite a bit. There is still strength but endurance is not of what a Sihing should be. I'm going to, in the near future start installing squat thrusts with my daily routine and throw in a few burpees as well. I have been missing my daily bike rides lately and that really sucks because I could feel a difference in a short period of time with several things. I guess this would be another challenge that has been thrown at me from a full deck of wild cards. I have always had the advantage of working physically hard every day to maintain my strength and endurance and see accelerated progress when I was at the kwoon on a regular basis. Now that I have been in a management scum position I don't have that luxury because I am in the office most of the time or just out for walks. This has been by far the most challenging year for me and where I am at in my Kung Fu. The only thing to do is press on to be the best you can and do everything you can. That's it.
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
June 26, 27, 2013
150 push ups
150 sit ups
10 weapon form reps
50 round house kicks
50 hidden leg techniques
2 min. horse stance
On the way home from picking up my daughter we seen a homeless guy on the side of the road with his life on his back and a sign that said "HUNGRY". So Eva and I went and bought him a meal and gave it to him with a bottle of water. I held the door for 4 people and bought the woman behind me a coffee in the line up.
150 sit ups
10 weapon form reps
50 round house kicks
50 hidden leg techniques
2 min. horse stance
On the way home from picking up my daughter we seen a homeless guy on the side of the road with his life on his back and a sign that said "HUNGRY". So Eva and I went and bought him a meal and gave it to him with a bottle of water. I held the door for 4 people and bought the woman behind me a coffee in the line up.
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
June 24, 25, 2013
200 push ups
200 sit ups
25 round house kicks per leg
10 weapon form reps
10 board breaking sequence reps
I am in the process of trying to come up with five personal techniques. There is a lot of theoretical questions I have in order to fully understand the mind set to begin. These questions I am going to put forward to kwoon talk and see what kind of advice I can obtain and maybe something will come up to help not only myself but others that may be having problems.
Tonight I had the pleasure of hanging out with the team while they practiced the dragon dance. It was pretty cool to finally show up at a practice and see what's going on. Not only that I was asked to fill in the tail of the lion to help out. To keep the practice rolling and I had an absolute blast. Although I didn't have a real clue, I like being thrown in on the fly like that, jump in with both feet blind and go for it.
Brian Chervenka
200 sit ups
25 round house kicks per leg
10 weapon form reps
10 board breaking sequence reps
I am in the process of trying to come up with five personal techniques. There is a lot of theoretical questions I have in order to fully understand the mind set to begin. These questions I am going to put forward to kwoon talk and see what kind of advice I can obtain and maybe something will come up to help not only myself but others that may be having problems.
Tonight I had the pleasure of hanging out with the team while they practiced the dragon dance. It was pretty cool to finally show up at a practice and see what's going on. Not only that I was asked to fill in the tail of the lion to help out. To keep the practice rolling and I had an absolute blast. Although I didn't have a real clue, I like being thrown in on the fly like that, jump in with both feet blind and go for it.
Brian Chervenka
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Friday, 21 June 2013
June 20 and 21, 2013
200 push ups
200 sittups
Walked 8km over the last two days
10 reps of Long 1 and 2
10 reps of 18 temple motions
10 reps of Hung 1 and 2
I did a bunch of Long, 1 and 2, 18 temple motion, and Hung 1 and 2 reps in the water today. It was the first time I have ever practiced forms in the water. What a great tell tale way to check resistance vs flow. It was also interesting doing the forms with the assistance of water. Taking away the pull of gravity gives you the time and the awareness of the technique throughout your whole body. From the transition to the grounding of it all. How you place your feet, the timing of your stance to the end of your strike. Once I removed myself from the water and practiced these same forms a whole new awareness to not only where I was shown of instability but a lack of continuous two handed mechanics. When one hand is dormant, even for a few seconds, the water gives it away right now. It's very hard to explain right now but I have definately discovered a new training tool that I plan to utilize in the future.
On a note outside of training I feel very bad for the people in southern Alberta right now. Imagine one minute your doing whatever it is you do, next minute your street is under water and your house is flooded and your being forced to leave. I hope everyone has gotten away safe and sound and has a place to stay and food in their bellies.
Brian Chervenka
200 sittups
Walked 8km over the last two days
10 reps of Long 1 and 2
10 reps of 18 temple motions
10 reps of Hung 1 and 2
I did a bunch of Long, 1 and 2, 18 temple motion, and Hung 1 and 2 reps in the water today. It was the first time I have ever practiced forms in the water. What a great tell tale way to check resistance vs flow. It was also interesting doing the forms with the assistance of water. Taking away the pull of gravity gives you the time and the awareness of the technique throughout your whole body. From the transition to the grounding of it all. How you place your feet, the timing of your stance to the end of your strike. Once I removed myself from the water and practiced these same forms a whole new awareness to not only where I was shown of instability but a lack of continuous two handed mechanics. When one hand is dormant, even for a few seconds, the water gives it away right now. It's very hard to explain right now but I have definately discovered a new training tool that I plan to utilize in the future.
On a note outside of training I feel very bad for the people in southern Alberta right now. Imagine one minute your doing whatever it is you do, next minute your street is under water and your house is flooded and your being forced to leave. I hope everyone has gotten away safe and sound and has a place to stay and food in their bellies.
Brian Chervenka
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
June 19, 2013
150 push ups
150 sittups
50 thrust kicks per leg
25 triple kicks per leg
5 reps of board breaking technique
I am going to be out of town for the next 5 days which means I will not be at class on friday. I will have my tablet with me so I can keep my progress up to date and everyone on the team informed. See you all next week.
Brian Chervenka
150 sittups
50 thrust kicks per leg
25 triple kicks per leg
5 reps of board breaking technique
I am going to be out of town for the next 5 days which means I will not be at class on friday. I will have my tablet with me so I can keep my progress up to date and everyone on the team informed. See you all next week.
Brian Chervenka
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
June 18, 2103
150 push ups complete
150 sittups
10 reps of my weapon form
10 reps of board breaking techniques
Issue still prevelant with articulation into stance transisition but its coming along finally. Left handstill still needs to figure out what the right is doing in order to smooth out my articulation.
My stances are becoming more stable and flow is starting to come between right into left open x stance.
Board breaking techniques are going to require more work in order to make it flow. Right now I am working on the foot work because it seems awkward. Have spent sometime lately in settling into my stance as I strike to work on grounded power.
150 sittups
10 reps of my weapon form
10 reps of board breaking techniques
Issue still prevelant with articulation into stance transisition but its coming along finally. Left handstill still needs to figure out what the right is doing in order to smooth out my articulation.
My stances are becoming more stable and flow is starting to come between right into left open x stance.
Board breaking techniques are going to require more work in order to make it flow. Right now I am working on the foot work because it seems awkward. Have spent sometime lately in settling into my stance as I strike to work on grounded power.
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