Archive for the ‘Kung Fu’ Category
Combat Conditioning
Holidays are tough. The entire months of November and December seem tailor made to screw up my kung fu and workout schedules. That we’re moving into a new house this year leads to a noticeable magnification of this effect as I traipse home for various appointments that seem to be invariably scheduled during my workout [...]
Carpet + grappling == ?
Yeah, we have carpet at the studio. This does not bode well for the overall aesthetic appeal of my various appendages. My elbows and knees are continuously torn up. I’ll commonly come home with rug burns on my bald [ObCatEdit: shaven] pate. It must be said that few things turn on my little lady than [...]
Take the pebble from my hand
I have to teach a 2-hour class tonight. I’m wondering if I can get away with “and now, we’ll use this next hour for independent study and exploration. I’ll be over here working the double broadswords and you… won’t.” Heartless, I know.
Hole In My Pants?
As an interesting addendum to yesterday’s blabber, today I happened to look up from my wooden dummy workout to see two yutes (“Oh, excuse me your honor. Two YOUTHS.”) outside the window with — I’m not making this up — their faces pressed against the window, hands shading from the glare so they could see [...]
But Did You Hear What It Called Me?
The place where I train (OT: odd little verb, “train”, isn’t it? I feels so unverby. It’s akin to saying “Gee, I sure wish I could luggage faster than him.”) is located on a street that — at the time I usually train — has an almost continual line of stop-and-go traffic going past. This [...]
Size Matters
Most of you don’t know me. Hi! This behemoth isn’t me. I’m 6′2″ and around 210 right now. I normally don’t feel like the smallest person in the room. I don’t think of myself as gigantic by any stretch of the imagination.
I am an instructor at a local Kung Fu studio. We teach primarily Wing [...]
Body Awareness and the lack thereof
Went to class today and we had rather new group for an afternoon class. Aside from me there was a guy that had been coming for maybe 3 weeks, a guy that had been coming for about 2 weeks, and two guys who just walked in today. So I essentially assisted today with Sifu instead [...]
More kung fu == good
Spent this morning at the first instructors’ class at the new studio. 4 hours-worth of training, and it was very enjoyable. It was different from my expectations… far less conditioning than I was expecting, far more “detail cleanup” on technique, a bit more realistic grappling and striking applications, and a heavy influx of qi gong [...]
