Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Injury (Slight)

I have been home for almost a week now and was able to attend class on Monday and again last night. I fell a little behind as I stated in last weeks blog and that was due to many factors including an injury. I twisted my ankle slightly while I was away and it limited my ability to put some weight on it. It is on the mend now and so I am hopeful to be back to 100% soon so I can start to work on the things that have slipped.

Not much else to report except that I am hopefully around until the later part of May but there is a strong chance that I will miss the Tiger Challenge as I am schedule to leave around May 22nd. If I am not gone, I will be there though.

Monday, April 7, 2025

Update

It has been a long few days of work and travel so not much training has happened. The communities I am in are only accessible by ice road from 10:00pm to 10:00am and they are about an 8 or 9 hour drive. I have not been getting a lot of sleep between travel, working and then travelling again. I am hoping to be leaving tomorrow night as the road is closing on Thursday morning.

Here are my numbers to date

1) Pushups -9,100

2) Situps -9,100

3) 480 Sparring Rounds

4) 460 Kms

5) 290 AOKs

6) 9 Blogs

7) 85 Reps of Broadsword

8) 40 Reps of Broadsword

The sparring is taking a huge bump as it is a big part of my strength and conditioning training that I am doing. The form reps include partial reps as I did not know the whole forms at the beginning. I am now doing the full broadsword form but am still only part way through the Butterfly Swords.