In my efforts to balance my priorities this year, I only signed up for one event in the Tiger Challenge. That way I was participating but also respecting my time and other responsibilities. Did I get the balance right? We’ll see.
Didn’t perform very well during the Challenge, but didn’t really expect to, having only just gotten to the point where I could remember that much of the form and hadn’t done much work yet on improving technique yet. Plus, anxiety from having to perform for judges and audience makes me tend to forget parts of my forms even when I do know them quite well. So, the best I can say about my sword form is that I went out and did it.
Things weren’t helped by the fact that I fell while practicing the day before. Slipped on the damp grass and fell in such a way as to over extend both hip joints. Thank goodness I have been slowly increasing in flexibility there or it could have hurt a lot worse! Thus, it’s evident that training has been improving some things even though I get frustrated with other things that never seem to really get better and limit performance.
On the topic of respecting my time and balancing priorities or, as I like to call it, decluttering my life, it was interesting to me, what Sifu Rybak said last week about something as simple as closing the curtain to the storage area. The effect of clutter on ones thinking, training, etcetera has been quite evident in this decluttering process. I expected it to some extent, of course, but it really is quite amazing how getting the clutter out makes such a difference in one’s energy levels, stress levels, and motivation.
On the decluttering goal, I’ve gotten another corner of the main living space in my house cleared out this past week and started to alter the front garden to be more Japanese garden -ish for easier care while still being a nice garden. There’s still a long way to go in this decluttering process and implementing of systems to prevent it from getting cluttered again. Each step forward feels like more weight lifted off of me.
Side note: I’m on the hunt for a snow lantern for the front garden (stone or concrete type material is preferred) but don’t know where to get one. If any of you know of a likely place, please let me know.
NUMBERS:
Pushups: 1350
Sit-ups: 804
Weapon Form: 115 Numbers should start increasing more rapidly now that I’ve got this much of it memorized. I struggle to know how to record numbers when it’s just little pieces I’m trying to memorize all the time.
Hand Form: 229 Been working on Da Mu Hsing V so much that I neglected I – IV, and it shows! Need to remedy that. Still don’t have all of V memorized yet.
Random Acts of Kindness: 40 Still keep forgetting to write most of them down. Did better at it recently though.
Sparring: 130
Kilometres: 484 Wondering how much not wearing my smartwatch in class will affect this number this year.
Memorize Mastery: slacked off on this one lately. Plan to start today remedying that.
Nurture Relationships: Been a little more mindful of this lately for some reason.
Blogging: 16, with this blog.
Declutter my life: vida supra
Greatcoat project: Still on the back burner.
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