For me, this is the biggest challenge that I have found so far with managing my own training. It's difficult to sort out what's important now and what can wait. And I'm constantly second guessing my choices. I often wonder what everyone else is working on and what their training regime looks like. Am I doing enough? Am I working on the right things? Or am I falling behind?
Monday, August 3, 2020
Falling Behind
Every so often I start to feel overwhelmed with the shear amount of information coming at me. Just when I think I've started to figure things out and get a handle on my training, we are introduced to new techniques, forms, applications, ideas, etc. I feel that if it's being discussed in class, then it's something I should be working on. But I just can't fit it all in. I'll be focused on and dedicated to practicing a few specific things that I have deemed important....and then suddenly realize that I haven't thrown a roundhouse or picked up my stick in 3 weeks.
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Always work on your basics - the keystone principles. That would be your basic stances: horse, bow, cat, and high back; your basic kicks: roundhouse, side heel thrust, front thrust, spin back kick, snap kick; your basic blocks: high rising, downward foot, inside hooking, reverse hooking, outside forearm.
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