Anxiety

Saturday was my first boot camp. I have never gone before as I was nervous about how I would do. I also thought that I would not be able to make it through all the physical challenges. After the day was over I learned a lot about myself and about the students of Silent River Kung Fu. The support and encouragement is remarkable and it makes me happy that I decided to attend boot camp!

26.5 Hour Day

I'm not sure why but it seems like most of my posts lately have been a bit "how you say" negative. I think its because of all the things that are going on in my life right now. It does'nt seem like the days are long enough and I feel like to devote 2.5 hours to my training everyday, I need to extend the days to 26.5 hours. It's when I decide to write my blog that these thoughts enter my brain. I am sure that all the other Sihings that are planning on grading this year have the same thoughts, fears and doubts. However, this does lead to a positive. the positive is we are able to go on this journey together and are therefore not alone. We have a really close group that is there to support each other, to pick each other up and to definately give us a push when we need it. Thanks guys, I feel a lot better now.

Fitness test 3

On Sunday, 5 of us went through the black belt fitness test again. Although I did see some improvement in my numbers, I also lost some ground in my other numbers. although I feel good overall, I am very nervous about the day of the actual test. We took around three hours for the test and I'm sure the day of will be a lot quicker which means less recovery time. I feel like I was at the edge of my limits as far as recob=very time went so that tells me I'm not ready yet. The only thing to do is to carry on training hard and continue to improve.

Tracking.

For the month of June, a few of us UBBT members are tracking our hours of training and posting them on a blog site. The idea is to see how much time you spend on your training as we should all be putting in 2 hours per day. This should help me focus and ensure that I am putting enough time into my training.