Finished week 4 yesterday and I’ll be starting week 5 today. Quite enjoyed the Warming the stove and getting to complete the 8 Section Brocade was a good feeling. Starting to feel a bit of sensation both in the tongue/palate and hara. Nice! I’ve also realised that the only way to get this kind of [...]
Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Finished off week 2 yesterday. Not too much to report other than sitting and stilling the mind is becoming easier (it’s still far from easy though!!) and I can blaze through the 6 Healing Sounds without getting sleepy/distracted. The more I do them, the more it feels that they should be called the 6 Healing [...]
So yet again, I’m back at the beginning. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill The best way to get something done is to begin. -Source Unknown You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, [...]
Training
Posted: November 1, 2008 in Martial Arts, ThoughtsTags: Martial Arts, motivation, training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA Sorry that I haven’t updated this blog for a while… well, more like forever! But don’t worry, I’ve been training balls out as usual and thanks to a new full time MMA/BJJ/No-Gi gym opening up near me I’ve been getting my ass to beatings on a regular!
Ong Bak is possibly the finest example (after a few fight scenes in the Bourne films [ie. the park bench scene with the two Police men]) of realistic applied martial arts put to film. Most of the time Jaa is fighting as if his only goal is to disable the attacker and finish the attack [...]
Looking through the ‘tags’ section of WordPress today I came across this. How To Manipulate Chi – A Secret To Martial Arts (martialartsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/how-to-manipulate-chi-a-secret-to-martial-arts) Learning to manipulate Chi and have it do what you want, when you want, how you want it, is not something that happens overnight. Many people when they learn that Chi is [...]
http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/BBsOeLcUARw A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. I like this. Makes me remember just how much of nothing there is within us, that we are not a solid as we are in the habit of thinking. As above so below, or the [...]
Let’s say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither [...]
munting around on the Interwebs at work today, I felt the need to respond to a post I saw here This is a portion of the original post: I think I finally mastered the knife disarm! Self defense seems so imprecise to me…the attacker will never be in the same exact position that you’ve practiced, [...]
