1/21/07 -
My work-out today was shoveling snow and cleaning the basement to get ready for the plumbers to jack-hammer tomorrow. I seemed to have pulled a muscle in my back doing mushim with the cane the other day so I will have to be cautious not to aggravate this week! Tonight I would like to thank my wife as an example of excellence. Tamara come from a family of six children. All of them have reached excellence in their own way. I attribute this to the excellent of their parents. Earl and Alma our very talented, hard working, have such high standards, and they have passed this one to their children.
My wife has extremely high standards and she exemplifies these in the way she does everything. Tamara is able to focus on any task at hand. It might be her work as an illustrator, care for our children, or performing martial arts. She never does anything half way. Even when my spirits are down her drive motivates me to focus just a little more energy!
1/24/07 -
Speaking of motivation, although my conditioning has gone well this week and my back is feeling better from doing kimoodo gently over the past few days, my hip pain has come back in full force, and I now it if from kicking. I am going to try back off the power for awhile and see if this helps. My fear is that I will be reduced to no kicking at all! Well I am off to Columbus for lesson 2 with Grandmaster Choi today.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Saturday, January 20, 2007
1/20/07 -
Last Wednesday, I spent a few hours with Grandmaster Choi, Master Gross, and Master Bleil. Gm Choi went into specifics about the types of things he would like us to perform. He suggested about 10 personal training sessions with him up front so that we could get the requirements down, and then have plenty of time to perfect them. He is really having us do many new things. Although most systems really don't teach many new techniques after 5th dan or require much of a physical test either.
Grandmaster Choi spelled-out a practice plan of 15-30 minutes of practice this week on Mushim-Bong (cane), InNae-In, and Geuk-Gi-In. This will start helping us get into greater condition to do many forms in a row! We will do the set of three several times without a break! We will be adding a new Karate form, a Two person Kung-Fu form, a Taekwondo form, sword, cane, Hapkido self defense, straw and bamboo cutting with sword, a breaking form, Our own invented form, and 5 day fasting and 24 hours of meditation. This is a lot between now and July 22nd!
I am concerned about really learning everything between now and then, and with a plumbing problem at the house, I am concerned about paying for so many personal training sessions, and being gone every Wednesday.
I have also had to make some modifications to my training schedule to make sure I including enough martial art practice each day, and not over training.
Last Wednesday, I spent a few hours with Grandmaster Choi, Master Gross, and Master Bleil. Gm Choi went into specifics about the types of things he would like us to perform. He suggested about 10 personal training sessions with him up front so that we could get the requirements down, and then have plenty of time to perfect them. He is really having us do many new things. Although most systems really don't teach many new techniques after 5th dan or require much of a physical test either.
Grandmaster Choi spelled-out a practice plan of 15-30 minutes of practice this week on Mushim-Bong (cane), InNae-In, and Geuk-Gi-In. This will start helping us get into greater condition to do many forms in a row! We will do the set of three several times without a break! We will be adding a new Karate form, a Two person Kung-Fu form, a Taekwondo form, sword, cane, Hapkido self defense, straw and bamboo cutting with sword, a breaking form, Our own invented form, and 5 day fasting and 24 hours of meditation. This is a lot between now and July 22nd!
I am concerned about really learning everything between now and then, and with a plumbing problem at the house, I am concerned about paying for so many personal training sessions, and being gone every Wednesday.
I have also had to make some modifications to my training schedule to make sure I including enough martial art practice each day, and not over training.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
1/17/07 -
Tamara and mine's trip to see my step father in Princeton, New Jersey was really nice. I took my cane along and I needed it during our long walks in Manhattan. Walking distances definitely takes the most toll on my hip, so I have to watch how long I go for treks these days! Besides the long walks, I did a work-out on Sunday at the house.
Today I had my first in a series of lessons with Grandmaster Choi. He is working with Master Gross from Columbus and Master Bleil from Dayton at the same time. It was an awesome experience and reminded me on why he is the Senior Grandmaster. Tomorrow I will give you a rundown.
Tamara and mine's trip to see my step father in Princeton, New Jersey was really nice. I took my cane along and I needed it during our long walks in Manhattan. Walking distances definitely takes the most toll on my hip, so I have to watch how long I go for treks these days! Besides the long walks, I did a work-out on Sunday at the house.
Today I had my first in a series of lessons with Grandmaster Choi. He is working with Master Gross from Columbus and Master Bleil from Dayton at the same time. It was an awesome experience and reminded me on why he is the Senior Grandmaster. Tomorrow I will give you a rundown.
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