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.
Just the folk you need to get to work with and teach.
Oh yeah — you big scary guy you….
yeah LMAO