Amituofo!
Yesterday we did our regular Tuesday training.
Sam has added some additional fitness exercises in the training, which is quite much fun :)
Yesterday we did a bonus spider-crawl race where we made 2 teams and tried to spider crawl as fast as possible to the goal, and back (in reverse, which was really fun to watch :) ). The loosing team had to do push-ups... but since it was a foto-finish and both teams cheated a bit... everyone did extra push-ups :).
Further the training was as usual. Warm Up, Ji Ben Gong and Tao Lu practice.
I do feel some muscle pain from the spider crawls today, so that is a good sign :)
More Chi, train harder!
Amituofo!
woensdag 16 september 2015
zondag 13 september 2015
13th of September
Amituofo!
Installed a trial of Matlab/Simulink to try some RF system simulations this weekend... that was good braintraining, so today it was time for some physical practice again.
I Took out the punch ball for a spin today and did a 45min workout practicing stepping, pressure sensitivity, transporting force (rather then blocking force), and punch/block combinations on the punch ball.
I really would like a room (or garden) that I can decorate like a dojo and where I can mount a punching bag on the ceiling, a wooden dummy, and some wall punching bags and such... Maybe some day... for now just will do with my punch ball, which is also pretty versatile :)
More training tomorrow!
Amituofo!
Installed a trial of Matlab/Simulink to try some RF system simulations this weekend... that was good braintraining, so today it was time for some physical practice again.
I Took out the punch ball for a spin today and did a 45min workout practicing stepping, pressure sensitivity, transporting force (rather then blocking force), and punch/block combinations on the punch ball.
I really would like a room (or garden) that I can decorate like a dojo and where I can mount a punching bag on the ceiling, a wooden dummy, and some wall punching bags and such... Maybe some day... for now just will do with my punch ball, which is also pretty versatile :)
More training tomorrow!
Amituofo!
vrijdag 11 september 2015
11th of September
Amituofo!
Today another beautiful day, and again made some time for lunch break exercise. Repeated yesterdays workout.
In the evening we had our Friday Kung Fu lesson. Shifu Carl was into the details today. We learned a lot about Tong Bei Quan this evening. Energy coming from the earth, travels through the hip towards the fist, follow the hands with the eyes, first root, then block then punch... etc...
Lots and lots of sweat! Super training! More Chi train harder!
Amituofo!
Today another beautiful day, and again made some time for lunch break exercise. Repeated yesterdays workout.
In the evening we had our Friday Kung Fu lesson. Shifu Carl was into the details today. We learned a lot about Tong Bei Quan this evening. Energy coming from the earth, travels through the hip towards the fist, follow the hands with the eyes, first root, then block then punch... etc...
Lots and lots of sweat! Super training! More Chi train harder!
Amituofo!
donderdag 10 september 2015
10th of September : Lovely weather to visit the park
Amituofo!
Finally found some time to go to the park today. Had only 45 minutes but still, better then nothing.
Did a Shi Yan Ming warming up, stretching, new physical therapy exercises that I learned last Tuesday, a couple sets of push ups, and Qi Gong to round it up...
Its amazing how energized I immediately felt. I started loving Qi Gong more and more, and slowly but gradually I start to get the hang of why this is so important in Kung Fu. As Shifu Yan Lei says: it massages the internal organs and improves blood flow to the deepest parts of the body.
When you manage to align the breathing and the movement, and you do the breathing right I really feel the difference. I now also understand the concept and purpose of reversed breathing, you can really feel that by doing that you change pressures on points inside your body in a way that you do not feel otherwise. E.g. when you do the exercises with normal breathing or when you do not get the flow of the movement and the breathing aligned.
I can't do it correctly with all exercises yet, but on the once I do I can feel the difference. I guess that is what our eastern friends really mean by Qi (in words without all the mystical Chinese medicinal terms).
Amituofo!
Finally found some time to go to the park today. Had only 45 minutes but still, better then nothing.
Did a Shi Yan Ming warming up, stretching, new physical therapy exercises that I learned last Tuesday, a couple sets of push ups, and Qi Gong to round it up...
When you manage to align the breathing and the movement, and you do the breathing right I really feel the difference. I now also understand the concept and purpose of reversed breathing, you can really feel that by doing that you change pressures on points inside your body in a way that you do not feel otherwise. E.g. when you do the exercises with normal breathing or when you do not get the flow of the movement and the breathing aligned.
I can't do it correctly with all exercises yet, but on the once I do I can feel the difference. I guess that is what our eastern friends really mean by Qi (in words without all the mystical Chinese medicinal terms).
Amituofo!
woensdag 9 september 2015
8th of September
Amituofo!
Yesterday we did our regular Tuesday training.
Now that it is official I can share the bad news from last post.
Sifu Carl unfortunately has decided that this will be his last year teaching us on a regular basis. He has good reasons to stop and ofcourse we all understand and support his decision, although we all find it a pitty.
I hope to learn a lot from Carl in the coming year, and I decided that I also want to learn the form that he developed himself. Before I did not want to do that, cause it is a mixed style form, and I like to stick to shaolin, but since Carl has taught me more then any other teacher I had before I decided to want to support to continue his legacy if I can.
Never the less we will keep training hard, may be even harder, since we all want to give Carl something to be proud of in a couple of years time :)
Btw... my knee is doing pretty ok, still some fluid build up, but my physical therapist explained me why that is and that I can expect that for the coming half year (each time I train a bit to hard...). I also overloaded my other knee at the moment, but I am used to that, that has been like this for the past 5 years (old injury which is a bit sensitive for overloads).
I have some new exercises for my for balance and strength improvement.
So still some busy weeks up ahead.
Amituofo!
Yesterday we did our regular Tuesday training.
Now that it is official I can share the bad news from last post.
Sifu Carl unfortunately has decided that this will be his last year teaching us on a regular basis. He has good reasons to stop and ofcourse we all understand and support his decision, although we all find it a pitty.
I hope to learn a lot from Carl in the coming year, and I decided that I also want to learn the form that he developed himself. Before I did not want to do that, cause it is a mixed style form, and I like to stick to shaolin, but since Carl has taught me more then any other teacher I had before I decided to want to support to continue his legacy if I can.
Never the less we will keep training hard, may be even harder, since we all want to give Carl something to be proud of in a couple of years time :)
Btw... my knee is doing pretty ok, still some fluid build up, but my physical therapist explained me why that is and that I can expect that for the coming half year (each time I train a bit to hard...). I also overloaded my other knee at the moment, but I am used to that, that has been like this for the past 5 years (old injury which is a bit sensitive for overloads).
I have some new exercises for my for balance and strength improvement.
So still some busy weeks up ahead.
Amituofo!
zaterdag 5 september 2015
4th of September : Good news and bad
Amituofo!
Yesterday was our first training from Sifu Carl for this season.
As usual it was a super training session. Learned lot's of things again!
The bad news I cannot say yet... It first needs to be known to everyone that is involved, and its not up to me to do so....
My knee is a bit swollen again... So yesterday was probably a bit too much (also am doing jumping and such again now). Tomorrow I am going to a zen & tao symposium, and I'll hope to do some training in the evening.
Amituofo!
PS. Kung Tao is always looking for new people who want to share our passion for Shaolin Kung Fu and train with us. So if you're interested in training just let us know!
woensdag 2 september 2015
1st of September : New season started!
Amituofo!
Jey, the new season started. Yesterday we did our first Kung Fu training in the gym. Some new people joined, which was really nice!
I always get happy from new people trying out new things, I hope the training was not to much for them and they will return next week.
I have been skipping lunch trainings. Too much fun work to do at the moment, which is a lousy excuse I know... but it is what it is... I'll pick it up as soon as possible. I have to say that my knee is also acting quite ok. Problems are still not over, but I start noticing it less and less...
In yesterdays training I also did a small amount of running and jumping again and I do not feel that it done much harm.
Tomorrow I have a meeting in lunch time, so no training as well... maybe I'll get up early and do a workout in the morning. We'll see...
Amituofo!
Jey, the new season started. Yesterday we did our first Kung Fu training in the gym. Some new people joined, which was really nice!
I always get happy from new people trying out new things, I hope the training was not to much for them and they will return next week.
I have been skipping lunch trainings. Too much fun work to do at the moment, which is a lousy excuse I know... but it is what it is... I'll pick it up as soon as possible. I have to say that my knee is also acting quite ok. Problems are still not over, but I start noticing it less and less...
In yesterdays training I also did a small amount of running and jumping again and I do not feel that it done much harm.
Tomorrow I have a meeting in lunch time, so no training as well... maybe I'll get up early and do a workout in the morning. We'll see...
Amituofo!
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