Excellent class. A return after a long haitus for me. I was nursing a shoulder injury but thankfully managed to avoid aggravating it further.
Topic for the class was 'threading the needle' and its role in the creation of jin. Quite a high level class to come back to after such a long time away, but I managed to take it all in. Did all the exercises on just my left side to protect my injured right shoulder. I also stepped out when the two man drills started. I could have tried them just on my good arm, but didn't want to risk lengthening my recovery time unnecessarily.
Looking forward to next Monday's class.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Friday, 10 July 2015
Saturday, 4 July 2015
Dealing with inevitable lapses and obstacles
Returned to class at Manchester Bagua last night after quite a few lessons missed. A number of things have hampered my attendence - not least of which the closure of a whole train line which increases my travel time home considerably. Now, however, we have a car and the classes are back on!
It really felt like a homecoming. It felt so right to be back in class and I was pleasantly surprised both by how much I still knew and how much strength/technique I'd still maintained.
It was a relatively small class last night, this heat wave here in the UK is, after all, "beer garden weather", as they say. While disappointing to see, that was cool in some respects as it made the class more personal and, of course, made for more one on one attention from teacher for those of us who had turned up.
Now I'm settled into our new house, I have a much better situation for training at home. I have a large living room (which has room enough to walk a decent circle), a spare room (currently full of boxes and assorted stuff - but it has potential), a garage (again full of detruitus, but with enough room left for some practice) and even a garden for when the weather allows outdoor practice/scaring the neighbours.
The garage even has my wife's new crosstrainer (useful for warmups, maybe?) and my new 5ft heavy punchbag. It hasn't been hung yet, but leans provocatively against the garage wall. Soon, then, I hope to have something close to a personal training space. Once I pull my finger out and clear the garage before hanging the bag.
Still, first priority is to reinstill my daily training habits at this new address.
Watch this space!
It really felt like a homecoming. It felt so right to be back in class and I was pleasantly surprised both by how much I still knew and how much strength/technique I'd still maintained.
It was a relatively small class last night, this heat wave here in the UK is, after all, "beer garden weather", as they say. While disappointing to see, that was cool in some respects as it made the class more personal and, of course, made for more one on one attention from teacher for those of us who had turned up.
Now I'm settled into our new house, I have a much better situation for training at home. I have a large living room (which has room enough to walk a decent circle), a spare room (currently full of boxes and assorted stuff - but it has potential), a garage (again full of detruitus, but with enough room left for some practice) and even a garden for when the weather allows outdoor practice/scaring the neighbours.
The garage even has my wife's new crosstrainer (useful for warmups, maybe?) and my new 5ft heavy punchbag. It hasn't been hung yet, but leans provocatively against the garage wall. Soon, then, I hope to have something close to a personal training space. Once I pull my finger out and clear the garage before hanging the bag.
Still, first priority is to reinstill my daily training habits at this new address.
Watch this space!
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Shameless promotion (www.manchester-bagua.org)
Just had someone ask me about my martial arts training.
We had a nice chat about internal martial arts, Tai Chi, Xing Yi and Baguazhang.
But I found it rather hard to stop myself from saying something like:
"Hey, why don't you come to our class. It's great! You'll love it. Come on... Come to our class this Friday!"
Thankfully, I just about managed to preserve my dignity and prevent myself from blurting it all out.
That said, he is still sitting across from me. Got about an hour to last til we finish work.
Maybe this is what televangelists feel like? Gotta spread the Bagua-love whereever I go!
Speaking of which! - www.manchester-bagua.org
We had a nice chat about internal martial arts, Tai Chi, Xing Yi and Baguazhang.
But I found it rather hard to stop myself from saying something like:
"Hey, why don't you come to our class. It's great! You'll love it. Come on... Come to our class this Friday!"
Thankfully, I just about managed to preserve my dignity and prevent myself from blurting it all out.
That said, he is still sitting across from me. Got about an hour to last til we finish work.
Maybe this is what televangelists feel like? Gotta spread the Bagua-love whereever I go!
Speaking of which! - www.manchester-bagua.org
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