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:
maandag 18 april 2016
Trip to Belgium! Finally Shi Heng Jin is back and teaching again :)
Last Sunday we went to Belgium. Finally, it has been almost a year since we were able to go train with Shi Heng Jin.
But now he is back and he can teach again, so we took the first opportunity that we could find to go to Belgium again. I hope he enjoyed training us as much as we enjoyed training with him.
Today my body was all sore, so today's training I took it a little easy. I first did a little running running, then did some abdominal training and a lot of stretches. I finished with qi gong.
Tomorrow it is Kung Tao practice time again :)
Amituofo!
But now he is back and he can teach again, so we took the first opportunity that we could find to go to Belgium again. I hope he enjoyed training us as much as we enjoyed training with him.
Today my body was all sore, so today's training I took it a little easy. I first did a little running running, then did some abdominal training and a lot of stretches. I finished with qi gong.
Tomorrow it is Kung Tao practice time again :)
Amituofo!
vrijdag 8 april 2016
Working on flexibility
For the past week I have been taking some (Ayurvedic) Yoga classes.
Totally different from Shaolin Wu Shu, but a bit comparable with Qi Gong. Lot's of loosening up the limbs, stretching muscles, and also quite some focus on relaxation and breathing, which I think really helps in Wu Shu as well. I have to admit that I do like to do an hour of training that is focused at freeing tension in your body. I can recommend taking at least a couple of these classes to all Wu Shu practitioners. You'll learn some great stretches to :)
Amituofo!
zaterdag 2 april 2016
2nd of April - Body is not feeling well....
Amituofo!
Since I moved I haven't been able to find my flow...
I noticed that not having a place of my own really gives me a lot of stress resulting in sleeping badly, feeling tired, not being able to follow my diet, not having sufficient time alone to clear the mind, spending a lot of time on looking for new houses and visiting new houses etc. etc...
My body also feels that stress. Passed weeks my hip/lower back is acting up again. My knee also does not feel well. No pain but I can feel something is not right there. Feels a bit swollen although I do not see swelling, and feels tired and sometimes slightly sore... like a muscle pain but then around the meniscus region (where I had the surgery).
To avoid ruining my body before the china trip I decided to take it easy a bit.
I will trian less on stamina and strength during lunch breaks for the coming weeks (will do more qi gong and stretching instead though). I also noticed that training more relax and focussing more on explosive power (which requires relaxation of your body parts) instead of neat moves reduces the pain in my hip/lowerback.
Last evening I tried to work on neatness again and immediately my hip/lowerback is more sore. So coming weeks I will train more training from relaxed body and flow and connecting the moves with my body, rather then neat moves and 'following' the desired 'external' appearance (by which I mean, doing it in such a way that it looks the same as others do, rather then following the flow from your body).
Amituofo!
Since I moved I haven't been able to find my flow...
I noticed that not having a place of my own really gives me a lot of stress resulting in sleeping badly, feeling tired, not being able to follow my diet, not having sufficient time alone to clear the mind, spending a lot of time on looking for new houses and visiting new houses etc. etc...
My body also feels that stress. Passed weeks my hip/lower back is acting up again. My knee also does not feel well. No pain but I can feel something is not right there. Feels a bit swollen although I do not see swelling, and feels tired and sometimes slightly sore... like a muscle pain but then around the meniscus region (where I had the surgery).
To avoid ruining my body before the china trip I decided to take it easy a bit.
I will trian less on stamina and strength during lunch breaks for the coming weeks (will do more qi gong and stretching instead though). I also noticed that training more relax and focussing more on explosive power (which requires relaxation of your body parts) instead of neat moves reduces the pain in my hip/lowerback.
Last evening I tried to work on neatness again and immediately my hip/lowerback is more sore. So coming weeks I will train more training from relaxed body and flow and connecting the moves with my body, rather then neat moves and 'following' the desired 'external' appearance (by which I mean, doing it in such a way that it looks the same as others do, rather then following the flow from your body).
Amituofo!
zondag 20 maart 2016
Just an update
Amituofo!
Nothing much to mention. Some hard decisions to make on buying the new house or not. The space is ideal, but the price is too high and we found out that we will have to spend quite a bit on overdue maintenance. So we might abandon the sale if the current owner does not want to pay the costs...
We'll see how that works out.... for now, lets just keep training :)
Amituofo!
Nothing much to mention. Some hard decisions to make on buying the new house or not. The space is ideal, but the price is too high and we found out that we will have to spend quite a bit on overdue maintenance. So we might abandon the sale if the current owner does not want to pay the costs...
We'll see how that works out.... for now, lets just keep training :)
Amituofo!
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