As I Ho Chuan (IHC) team members we have often talked about whether or not a person is training when they aren’t even blogging. Usually the answer is “no”. “No” is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of my training lately.
Then I think about how Kung Fu permeates so many things in our lives. It’s not just a martial art it is “hard work”, and mastery, to me, means doing your best and improving on that.
Thus, I feel I haven’t been training in martial arts like I should have been. I felt like I took on too many goals this year for my IHC goals, and then I took on even more things on top of that! Like a “sucker for punishment” I added starting an apiary and adopted two Malinois/Dutch Shepherd puppies and therefore the responsibility for their training. As if that isn’t bad enough, I took on siblings, a brother and sister from the same litter. So, Littermate Syndrome was a concern with the training too.
Am I training in Kung Fu every day? I guess that depends on how you look at it. Training and “hard work” have continued to be a daily part of my life, even though I haven’t been blogging about it (and forgetting to write my numbers down, as you can see below). Have I done my best? Yes. Could I do better? Most definitely!
The more I track, and journal, the more I learn about myself. The more I learn about myself the more I can zero in on changes that can make bigger differences. Based on my experiences in IHC so far, I now have an idea of something I really need to have as a goal for next year (I may start early) so that I can improve many aspects of my life. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner. Will that goal be the answer to everything? No, but it sure should help a lot! The other thing I’ve noticed being on the IHC team is that I’m constantly evaluating and readjusting my plans because life keeps throwing things in your path, and there are unforeseen consequences to decisions that you make, and there is hindsight, where you look back and realize you should have made a different decision. I think all that is training too, of a different kind. Learning to evaluate yourself and move forward using that information.
As a result of all this, I feel I am a better version of myself than I was yesterday. If I can keep doing that every day, then I’m on a good path… maybe even a path to mastery.
Push-ups/equivalent: 1015
Sit-ups/equivalent: 6687
Weapon Form (Staves): 401
Hand Form (Lau Gar): 100
RAoK: 170
Sparring: 383
Kilometers: 1389
Nurture Relationships: I'm sure I can do better. Though this can be a tough one to self-evaluate.
Blogging: 20 + 1
Drawing: 6
Meditation: 48
Great Coat Project: have materials but haven’t started construction.
One-On-One: 7
Unfortunately, I have nothing that can automatically track the pushups, sit-ups, forms, etc. the way that a smartwatch can track and record kilometres. I’ve missed a lot of opportunities for increased numbers because I didn’t record them at the time. That said, I have no illusions that my numbers, if recorded, would be where they should be right now, only that they would be more than what’s recorded above.
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