Ni Hao!
My last week before my Kungfu Journey has started. This week is all about check check double check.
Check if I have everything I need to take to China as clothes, suitcase, money, translator apps, maps, tickets, etc...
Last week I was taking rest from training, only doing stretches and some very mild exercise. This has paid off well. My hip is feeling a bit better, and I hope that if I continue like that for this week that then the pain will have dropped quite a bit when I leave for China.
I found a great website to learn some basic Chinese words by recommendation from a college of mine. ChinesePod.com. Should have started with that months ago :)
Anyway I at least will be able to say where I am from and ask 'how much does that cost'
I also know how to say 'I can't take anymore' ;p and 'I wan't to drink some water'
So cannot go wrong :)
Amituofo!
dinsdag 31 mei 2016
dinsdag 24 mei 2016
Counting down for Shaolin trip!
Amituofo!
Only a couple more days before I leave to train in Shaolin!
I am getting a bit nervous to be honest... going to a far away country on my own without speaking the language. I guess it will be alright, but it is quite exciting.
My hip injury is far from over. I suspect I am suffering from piriformis syndrome, the muscles in my buttocks are pushing on the sciatic nerve. I am visiting some doctors coming week to hope they can still do something before I go to China. But anyway I'm sure will learn a lot there, even if I am injured and not at my best.
For now I'll focus on yoga and stretches and give my bode a rest for the remaining time towards my trip.
I will place one more post here just before I leave. Hope to see you back then.
Amituofo!
Only a couple more days before I leave to train in Shaolin!
I am getting a bit nervous to be honest... going to a far away country on my own without speaking the language. I guess it will be alright, but it is quite exciting.
My hip injury is far from over. I suspect I am suffering from piriformis syndrome, the muscles in my buttocks are pushing on the sciatic nerve. I am visiting some doctors coming week to hope they can still do something before I go to China. But anyway I'm sure will learn a lot there, even if I am injured and not at my best.
For now I'll focus on yoga and stretches and give my bode a rest for the remaining time towards my trip.
I will place one more post here just before I leave. Hope to see you back then.
Amituofo!
dinsdag 3 mei 2016
Summer started?
Amituofo!
The weather appears to be clearing up here, which means that training outdoors becomes far less of a burden. Really motivating!
Also the trip to china is coming closer, just a couple of weeks away now. Everything is arranged with the kung fu school and I also received notice that my visa will be arriving soon.
The only downside is that last couple of weeks I have been training more 'explosively' to prepare for China, and combining that with to non-relaxed posture during resulted in some hip injury. It has been going on for a couple of weeks already, but since it is a 'pain' that I've had before I assumed it would pass as it would before, but now it is getting worse and worse... So I decided to pull the break for the time until I go to China. This last month I will ONLY practice flow, posture, stamina and static flexibility and internal kungfu, to give my body a good rest. No extreme kicking, no explosive taolu practice and no full contact sparring.
Hopefully I can go to the max in china then :)
Nice relaxed semi-contact sparring exercises:
The weather appears to be clearing up here, which means that training outdoors becomes far less of a burden. Really motivating!
Also the trip to china is coming closer, just a couple of weeks away now. Everything is arranged with the kung fu school and I also received notice that my visa will be arriving soon.
The only downside is that last couple of weeks I have been training more 'explosively' to prepare for China, and combining that with to non-relaxed posture during resulted in some hip injury. It has been going on for a couple of weeks already, but since it is a 'pain' that I've had before I assumed it would pass as it would before, but now it is getting worse and worse... So I decided to pull the break for the time until I go to China. This last month I will ONLY practice flow, posture, stamina and static flexibility and internal kungfu, to give my body a good rest. No extreme kicking, no explosive taolu practice and no full contact sparring.
Hopefully I can go to the max in china then :)
Nice relaxed semi-contact sparring exercises:
Taulo used for internal (flow) training:
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