Shining the apple

Had planned to train Tuesday. Training partner bailed on me. Turns out the lad went camping in the mountains and got kind of lost for half the day. Spent a long time wandering around bashing branches off trees trying to hack his way back to the road. Eventually he found it again and was only two kilometers from his vehicle. But he was kind of worn out after the event so I gave him the night off and just spent the time editing some film. Guess I’ll have to put some bruises on him on Thursday.

Yup didn’t even work up a sweat training last night. We mostly worked on kicking in the clinch. Ended up just leaning the heavy bag against a brick wall and giving it hell! My job was to hold it from toppling over.
Carl’s got the idea now and throws some wicked kicks inside. Once he figured out the hips he even got the side kick working in the clinch.
I gave him his question for his black belt test last night so now he’s got something to think about.

We finished the night with about 30 minutes of sticky hands, elbow flow and trapping. That’s the only work I actually did last night. Going to focus more on my self tonight! Problem with teaching is you don’t get all the work in you need at times.
We’ve decided to train FEUR on nights with a T from now on.
That leaves the other days free for me!

 Well the rain has cooled things off and those ignorant folks have returned to the city. Maybe we’ll get a rest from them for a while……fat chance the wee women tells me we are going shopping in the city tomorrow.  Ohhh well I do need some hunting supplies.

 Almost slept thru class tonight, but I woke up on the couch in the nick of time. I arrived a few minutes late; turns out neither of us had much energy. We shot the breeze for a while and then Carl worked on his kata’s and I installed a new battery in one of the trucks. I spent a bit of time working on his kata and that’s all she wrote.

 I suspect we both just needed a day of rest.

 Not keeping up with the training either. We have only trained 3 days in the past 2 weeks. I bailed on tonight, I worked 6 am to 9 pm.

 Friggin long weekends suck, but they prove to be great evidence of what an easy to get along with forgiving bloke I am. For today if I was anything less,  a few hundred ignorant tourists would have been left withering on the ground!

 Carl’s been short at work and we went thru a week of hellish hot temperatures and we both just laid low.

 When we did get off our asses and train we spent most of the time working on flow thru energy,  attachment and trapping and  entry via the elbow. I’ll post some clips on Ricks forum. Hmmm Guess we can call this my bong phase …no not that kind of bong the martial one!

Spent some time on Carl’s kata…they are coming along nicely. Trying to intergrat kata with his understanding of application.  I’ve reached the point that I’ve decided to not teach kata to future students but rather to have them develop forms from the applications they train. This way the kata will be truly theirs and and something they can always utilize as oppose to learn to utilize.

 Their is a silver lining in every cloud. Had a conversation with a Warden/police officer today…I know a few of them. This one expressed an interest in karate training and apparently I have a bit of a reputation as a scary guy in the  community. Well I can’t do anything about the insecure folks in my community but I’d be pleased to welcome a LEO or a few them to the training circle. This is something I’ve been looking for people who have a real desire to train what really works. So I’ll try and nuture the relationship and cross arms with the guy…see if I can get a few of the lads to come play!

ohh yeah weight is down to 208 from 238 in December. Not from hard work and exercise, just  eat different because of disease.  Got to get to a point where I can train hard!  Weight loss does help with this goal.