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klank · 04-05-2007, 11:21 AM

Thanks Guys. I see your point GranFire. It was frustrating me to practice a drill and feel like I'm having to defend myself in a Cage match. By the 5th time I was loosing respect as well.

O Monday, and one thing I didn't say in my post was after we were close to done with class our instructor came over to us and got the pads out to show him how well weve come along. I was pleased that my fellow student was asked to slow his moves down and needed a lot of work because as you said GranFire (think Wild West Duels, speed is secondary to accuracy). Sure he was fast and strong but he was missing the detail. I've thought a lot about this and feel better about where I'm at compared to him. I think I am that type that needs the detail first before I can get it right, and with speed and endurance.

And Tom, I have made a lot of progress. I'm the only one in my class that stays behind regardless of what I've done in class and I do 3 sets of push ups for 1 minutes each, 3 sets of sit ups for 1 minute each set, and triceps chair dips. I've been doing this for 3 weeks now and wow, what a change in my strength on how many push ups I can do which is only about 12 at a time.

And I just want you to know that I got major kudos last night at my test. One of the Judges stopped everyone and said they needed to give the same effort as I was giving with the detail, strength, and loud Ki-upping I had just done on a pad work combination. I felt good. I gave it 110% and I know I did because today I am soarer than I've ever been and that's pretty cool. Even on my last Muay Thai Kick I did the pad holder was like "Whoa!" because I kicked him so hard.

It feels good. After last night, it gave me a new meaning of training harder when the School owner came up to me afterwards and said "Keep up the hard work, your going to be one bad ass machine!"

So, If I have another goal to set for this belt it's going to be concentration while at class. I'm totally guilty of thinking about everything but what I'm doing at the moment. I'll work at it.

Thanks again.

04-05-2007, 11:21 AM	#5 (permalink)
klank Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 23	I made it! Thanks Guys. I see your point GranFire. It was frustrating me to practice a drill and feel like I'm having to defend myself in a Cage match. By the 5th time I was loosing respect as well. O Monday, and one thing I didn't say in my post was after we were close to done with class our instructor came over to us and got the pads out to show him how well weve come along. I was pleased that my fellow student was asked to slow his moves down and needed a lot of work because as you said GranFire (think Wild West Duels, speed is secondary to accuracy). Sure he was fast and strong but he was missing the detail. I've thought a lot about this and feel better about where I'm at compared to him. I think I am that type that needs the detail first before I can get it right, and with speed and endurance. And Tom, I have made a lot of progress. I'm the only one in my class that stays behind regardless of what I've done in class and I do 3 sets of push ups for 1 minutes each, 3 sets of sit ups for 1 minute each set, and triceps chair dips. I've been doing this for 3 weeks now and wow, what a change in my strength on how many push ups I can do which is only about 12 at a time. And I just want you to know that I got major kudos last night at my test. One of the Judges stopped everyone and said they needed to give the same effort as I was giving with the detail, strength, and loud Ki-upping I had just done on a pad work combination. I felt good. I gave it 110% and I know I did because today I am soarer than I've ever been and that's pretty cool. Even on my last Muay Thai Kick I did the pad holder was like "Whoa!" because I kicked him so hard. It feels good. After last night, it gave me a new meaning of training harder when the School owner came up to me afterwards and said "Keep up the hard work, your going to be one bad ass machine!" So, If I have another goal to set for this belt it's going to be concentration while at class. I'm totally guilty of thinking about everything but what I'm doing at the moment. I'll work at it. Thanks again.