Sit ups, Sit ups When is there time?

Last week June 14th to the 17th I spent four days in San Jose California at a conference on a software application that the company I work for uses. Now California is a nice place and the conference was very informative and I came back with a lot of good ideas and a fresh outlook on how to better use the software that I work with on a daily bases. But while I was a way I was finding it hard to find the time to do my push ups and sit ups let alone practice Kung Fu. There was always something happening. I would get up in the morning and nock off a few push ups and sit ups before having a shower and then it was off to breakfast, then off to the conference room, at lunch I would eat something small then race off to my hotel room and do some more push ups and sit ups, then back down to the conference room. Then it was supper and after we’d head off on some activity. The company that put on the conference was very good at not leaving us much free time; we were either in a conference room or off at an activity that they had planed. I must admit it was fun and I enjoyed it all. I knew my push ups and sit ups were suffering and there were times where I could have made up for them, but I just could not get enough courage screwed up to do the in front of a bunch of people. I will give it those people that can do their push ups out in public, they have courage and confidence in themselves.
I felt a little out of sorts when I went the Sihing class on Friday, because that was the last class that I had attended before leaving to San Jose. I hade missed the Monday and Wednesdays classes that I go to in Onoway, so I felt like I had missing something, like a missed opportunity I was disconjointed, I hate missing a class any class. The bright side of all of this is that on Monday I tallied up my push ups and sit ups from my iPod and entered them into a daily calendar I use for hard storage of my numbers, and I found my numbers weren’t as bad as I thought they were going to be, they were still low but not to bad. Nothing that is going to prevent me from reaching my goal of 26,000 by September 1, also Monday night’s class in Onoway brought back that feeling of unity that I was missing.

Demos and the Silent River way

Heritage Days are over in Onoway for another year and again the Onoway students performed excellent. I think this year we had best turn out of the number of students that came and participated in the parade and demo. Nearly the entire school attended.

Things that are needed for next year; a portable stereo for demo music, schedule the Lion Dance and Demo with the Heritage Day committee so that it will be advertised in the schedule for the events of the day and then we will have a set time and place.

Things I would like to change for next year; put in sets of self defense techniques in between forms, start preparing for the demo earlier and try to break the tradition of doing it last minute (The Silent River Way).

In all every one performed excellent with minimal preparation and should be proud of them selves.

One Injury after another.

Week three of blogging;
I do not know if continuing to write down my thoughts, trials and revelations and than publishing them on the web are going to do me any good in the future. But with most things that I do I will continue on without giving up. I know that Sifu Brinker would not be asking us to document our journey in the martial arts if there was no value in doing it. One day I hope to be able to see the wisdom in this blogging thing, but only through time and patients will I gain wisdom.

Last night I was reminded of a statement that Sifu Brinker had said to all of us. “At this level in you training you will find that as one injury is healing you will most likely injure something else. Don’t stop in your training but modify it to allow those injured parts to heal.” Why I was reminded of this statement last night was my wrist that I had injured about a month ago was starting to feel better and I was able to get a decent amount of rotation in it without a lot of pain, so I was practicing double reticulation with my spear and it was feeling really good. I was concentrating on maintaining a firm grip with both hands as is needed and all of the sudden out of no where my right shoulder is in a lot of pain. I think I may have strained the muscles in it do to the fact of the lack of flexibility in my wrists, I hope it is not to severe and it heals quickly.