Today I took a day off from work.
This morning I went to the Valkhof park to do 1,5 hour of Kung Fu practise. Started out with Qi Gong and stretching. After that I practised Tai Chi Jian (The Tai Chi sword form which I learned a while ago from Sifu Clemens Kwee), Shaolin Gui Ding Jian (The kung fu sword form I am learning from Sifu Shi Heng Jin) and I practised Yin Shou Gun and Zhen Shan Gun. Was a good session and I
took it a bit easy for my knee.
Hope that I can get a massage this afternoon, cause training everyday does result in a lot of acid build-up in the muscles.
I start to get into my training rhythm again for the first time since my knee operation. Last week I trained everyday at least once. I don't know if my knee likes it though, it is starting to swell again (no pain, just a little swelling). So I might have to cut back on the amount of stress on the knee just a little...
Today I did knee strengthening exercises again, I want to do that on a 2 day interval. But judging by what my knee tells me today that might be to much.
Tomorrow I will stick to Qi Gong, Tai Chi and some weapons training, which will be a little less strain on the knee. Hope the weather is ok tomorrow, really feel in Jian mood :)
PS. I just found out that I think I am learning Shaolin Guiding Jian, not Da Mo Jian, which explains all the major differences I see when I compare what I learn to the Da Mo Jian movies on line. Various forms within Tao Lu differ a lot from school to school, so it is not uncommon to learn things different as in the youtube movies, but this one was so different and I ran into Guiding Jian by incident, which is far more, though also not exactly ;), what I am learning.
Never mind that, still a beautiful form :)
I do hope I get a chance to learn the rest cause I heard Sifu Shi Heng Jin had to go back to china for now :(, sure hope he will come back to Belgium.
Today I practised Qi Gong, Tai Zu Chuan Quan and Yang style simplified 24 form Tai Chi during lunch break. I also spend quite some time on stretching. Put on my blue satin kung fu pants when I went to the park... really fun to walk in your kung fu clothes amongst tightly (over) dressed business people :) You will see some strange looking faces then :)
In the evening Sam gave another great energetic training. After the usual warm up, Ji Ben Gong and a short 'high intensity' exercise we did some old-school 'hardening', always fun, especially for the less experienced students. We also did Wu Bu Quan, Lian Huan Quan and Tong Bi Quan. Lian Huan Quan is really starting to look good due to the practice we put in it each week. For Tong Bi Quan we're working on the details now.
Also spend some time exercising Wu Long Pan Da, which is a great exercise to learn how to relax your shoulders and be faster with your arms by giving them movement from the hips, rather than from the muscles in the arm.
I finally did a good exercise session in lunch time again. I did a short Qi Gong session for warm up. Then half an hour of power exercises for my knee and finally I still had time for 20 minutes of Tao Lu practice and some stretching. Did a couple of reps for Tong Bi Quan, Wu Xing Quan, Lian Bu Quan, Ba Bu Lian Huan Quan and Zhao Yang Quan...Do admit that I had to pauze to take a breath before and between Tao Lu practice a couple of times cause I did it at full speed (or at least made an attempt), could really notice that my stamina is not what it used to be.
Anyway... I hope to repeat this tomorrow, felt great doing this again. Should really just make some time for it, makes the body and mind feel a lot better instantly!
Amituofo!
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zondag 4 oktober 2015
Amituofo!
Lazy day today... No practice in the morning like planned. Did boxing ball practice in the evening in stead after visiting my parents, brother and little nephew today.
My body somehow does not feel well. Very little energy, also noticed that during training last Friday. Motivation is also lacking. Must be the lack of Qi gong training lately, lets pick that up tomorrow again.
Amituofo!
zaterdag 3 oktober 2015
Friday training evening again!
I think I spend to many hours behind a desk last week though.. my body did not want to go in 'training' mode, had little energy. Never the less we did a nice session of sparring training. Which we try to do once a month in Carls lessons.
Saterday morning I did a quick Qi Gong session, and then I had to go to pick up my girlfriend for her Karate tournament. She did great! Ended up at a 4th place, but this was the first time that she wasn't one brick of nervousness on the tatami. So this was quite a victory for her. Tomorrow I will do some training myself again. May be, if Tom is up for it we go practice Duilian Gun and else I'll practice alone... would also be good since I have been neglecting my other Tao Lu lately.
Oops... forgot to write about the 29th of September. This was our regular Tuesday evening. After a good warm up, we did some sparring (traditional sparring) which was really fun, we do that to little. After that we practiced Wu Bu Quan in detail and finally Sam asked me to teach and practice basic stances and Wu Bu Quan to/with one of our new student.
So when the training was over I quickly practiced Yin Shou Gun and Zhen Shan Gun with Tom (we ended up in the dark, cause of the automatic lighting system).
Some exiting news! Tom & I are quite likely to be going to practice a Duilian Gun form. (Duet form).
This one to be precise:
I hope to share some videos soon...
Coming days I will again be training too little, since I have a really fun study project at work which I really want to spend a lot of time on...
