Boot Camp sucess

hello everyone i just have to say wow what a boot camp. I learned so much that day and i was so sore afterwards. I loved the whole day, but the highlight of the day for me was when we did some kickboxing with sifu leets and doing some bone density on those trees. i can easily say the tree whooped my butt, but sifu leets taught the tree he was hitting a lesson. Also another highlight for me was the fan part with sifu platter especially when i got hit in the ear. i was definitely not expecting that and i was surprised and dazed for 2 seconds, but i guess that just means that the technique is a solid technique and would surprise any attacker that might be going for you. either way i had fun when that happen. And the last highlight for me was the running at the end of it all. I was able to contentiously run the full 2 kms without stopping once. I was so happy that i did that. Of course there were many other times during the day i had lost of fun as well, those are just some of the things that come to mind to me right now. sifu brinker always talks about how it is a miracle how we all meet at a certain place at a certain time with a certain random group of people. he breaks it down to everything. Like everything in our life lead up to that  exact moment, but when you think about it; it really is a miracle. for instance I was born in Victoria, my dad was in the navy. then he transferred to the army, which made us move to Edmonton. we only lived there for a short while, but then we moved to parkland village. where i started going to this school where i met my first best friend. Who then had grandparents who said they put him in kung fu; so of course i had to join to. Just to find out later that his grandparents messed the name up and actually my friend joined Tae Kwon do . i remained in kung fu and never quit because i was to polite, but my mom started going to kung fu. and when i got to sihing level i quit for three years. then my mom got her black belt; then i wanted to do the same for myself so i re joined kung fu, then a couple of years later i found myself at keephills school doing a boot camp. So all of this had to happen  all of these thing is they did not happen i would not of been at that bootcamp that day. So if that is what i had to do; to be there on that specific day and at that specific time i could only imagine what every body else had to do to be there at that exact day. It really is a miracle and i just think that is the coolest.


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Pre bootcamp

hello everyone i can't wait till boot camp starts. I am really looking forward to it. A day where i push myself past my limits and then i go father. Also i can't wait to learn all of the things that they will be teaching and showing at the boot camp. for what i know there will be there tonfa' (i know i did not spell that right at all) fans, judo, san sao and that is just some of the thing that i know that are going to be there. there is still so much more and i can't wait to see it all. The one thing that i really can't wait for is the fitness test; just because this is where you can see how far you have come or what needs to be worked on. either way you always get something positive out of it. You may feel at the end of the day like a zombie and you just don't want to move anymore (or at least that is how i feel) but i know no matter how hard that day is i know i have learned something that day and become better for it. Boot camp only happens once a year so i attend to enjoy it, boot camp for me is a one of a kind day. there will be other boot camps, but none of them will ever be the same experience. So remember guy remain extraordinary.


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small update on me

Hello everyone well i guess this one will be an info one. I have a lot on the go right now i am am preparing for university, and filling out a lot of forms for student loans. Also preparing to go see some family i have not seen in 10 years in Saskatchewan; can't wait for that. of course lot of kung fu practicing, but i am still having fun doing it. it is kind of interesting doing a form and then discovering new things about a form that you have done millions of times or a technique you thought was pretty good then finding out it was actually supposed to be done another way it is all fascinating. Also one more thing i have been working lots and i can officially say i am debt free for 2 months. Which i am  super happy about the only unfortunate thing is though i will be back in debt in like 2 months because of school and all, but easy come easy go. well that is all that is happening with me for now so have a wonderful day or night whenever some people read this.


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read this one

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hello everyone some of the stuff in this blog i was planing to say in the meeting, but i did not make and i am so sorry for that. I was going to talk a little about my journey on coming back to kung fu, because i think it is a good one and some people may get something out of it, if not that is okay to.

when i first join kung fu i joined for all the wrong reasons; i joined because my friend was joining. it turned out later that he never joined kung fu he went into Tae Kwon Do; his grandparents got the name wrong. But there i was in kung fu, now not wanting to be there. i never quit kung fu early because i was to polite and shy. i thought if i quit kung fu i would hurt peoples feelings, but that was not the case at all. I was a bad student and i never tried or applied myself to hard. I was just coasting, being lazy. I was a classical never going to get his black belt, because i was barely sihing material. then one day i eventually did quit and i thought i would never look back, but year after year of being out of kung fu i began to devolve a negative void inside of me. i was not enjoying life, i was just living it. when i first quit kung fu i really was happy no more responsibility, no more pressure to do a form better, just me. 

by the third year of not doing kung fu i was not happy at all i was just blah. then my mo got her black belt that year. And to see what she had to do to get the black belt was grueling. but it was how she treated the black belt that got me to thinking. she did not do all of this hard work just for the black belt (well some of it of course) but the sheer persistence she had into getting her belt. she was always happy at kung  fu and always working on something to improve upon. She truly was on a amazing journey. I thought to myself on the day she was handed her black belt. I want that for myself as well. i want to have an extraordinary journey as well. i wanted back in kung fu but his time it was for me. 

what wonders kung fu has done for since then i have grown leaps and bounds from where i used to be in life, and kung fu gave that to me. that negative i had while i was gone from kung was not going to kung fu. Yes sometimes it is demanding, and sometimes really hard, but is anything worth doing easy to get;was it easy to get your wife or husband? was it easy to get your dream job? i would say most of the time no, but it is normally worth it.  when i was younger i thought kung fu held me back and took up all my time, but in reality our kung fu is not mainly in the business of building awesome black belt ( but of course we have lots of those) it is in the business of changing who you are as a person for the better. if there is one thing for sure that kung fu has showed me it is not to focus on the negativity, but rather the positivity. stuff in life will go wrong, but it what you do that makes the difference. I admit i have not always made the right choice when it comes to negativity, i am sometimes silent or i say the wrong thing, but we are all human we can all learn from our mistakes. if we had none how would we know when something was wrong? 

well i guess i will leave off of that and remember remain extraordinary.      


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Apologies

Hello everyone this blog is to simply say that i am sorry for what my last blog caused. I am sorry that some people misinterpreted what i was trying to say, which was none of there faults, but mine alone. I was unable to clearly express and communicate myself properly. I was just trying to express how i was feeling, but i clearly failed to do so. I do not have any doubts about anybody nor anyone, i will try and make this perfectly clear as possible i am very happy and proud of this team we have, I am also ecstatic about the accomplishment we have succeeded in and i would not change a thing about our team. I will take it upon myself to improve my verbal an writing communication skills so this never happens again. As soon as i found out about what i had caused i immediately regretted it. At the time i was merely trying to say how i personally feel and not call anyone out, but i know in my blog now how it might have been seen that way, and i am truly sorry for that. I will again make sure that i do a better job of saying how i feel in a more private manner if need be or better explaining myself next time. I assure you i will never sound that negative again, because all it got me was more negativity. If anything I Ho Chuan is the best thing that has every happened to me. Before I Ho Chuan i had little to no friends at kung fu, because i was shy and distant, but I Ho Chuan helped me make  a lot more friends and come out of my shell. So i will always try to remember that the next time i ever feel negative again.  


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Crazy week and demo stuff

I did a lot this week but nothing to out of the ordinary, other than getting my first aid and taking care of the house for a week while my parents were gone and helping my aunt debbie. I had to take care of a dog who refused to eat and drink, and never asked to be let out; i had to let him out on purpose just to make sure he never had an accident in the house, but he did of course. My dog always asks my parent to go outside but never me, even if i am the only one. Also i have had to help my aunt twice this week. First was transporting a bbq from my place to her place; then i had to help transport a fridge onto her place, which was all good. The neat part of my week was learning first aid with two of my fellow classmates from kung fu. I got to learn a little bit more about them and felt like it bonded us a little bit closer together, which was neat. out of the three of us i got the lowest score it was 100% , 90 something%, and me 90%. I felt like i could of done better, but it was my first time ever learning that stuff. i just want to mention that this year for demo practice and putting together a demo for a function seems a little more forced and a little unnatural. so instead of people doing it because they want to, and of course because we have to do a least 3 of them. It feels like people might be doing it because they are being forced to or guilted into doing it rather then being inspired to to it and maybe change themselves in the process. I am not saying this is everyone, but rather some. I understand that sometimes to get stuff done or to push someone beyond there limits, some of this tough love has to be done. but is there another way to do it?...... I personally don't know. I know we have to cram into a demo really quick right now because we have a very limited time before the demo actually has to be done an it has to look good. But for maybe afterwards or next time, is there a better way to put a demo together? Is it time? Is it leadership? Or is it the people themselves? I know last year felt very natural and even not so forced. Maybe we had the leadership? the time? and the people in the right frame of mind, but that was last year, and we even started it late. So we must focus on this year, I think we are doing amazing this year to build demos in as little time as we are doing, is amazing, but it just feel like we are missing something and i can honestly say that i can't tell what that is. The people are still awesome, the people are dedicated, the only difference is that we are doing it on so short of time, but should that really effect the atmosphere of the demo? I don't know, i am just asking. this is only my second year in doing this but i still truly believe that i will get that feeling back, maybe it is the time or whatever else it might be, because if there is a least one thing that the I ho Chuan has taught me from last year is to keep being perseveres. Even knowing when times feel tough it always gets better without the bad there would be no good. So i guess that is my little rant for now and sorry if it is a little hard to understand what i wrote here, i really suck at where to put the proper punctuations and all that.


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Small Recap

hello everyone i am just going to do a quick recap on what has happened to me and some of you. I started the year with lots of optimism and ambition. they was a calm period for a little while, but then we needed demos and someone who surprised me, took control of forming up a demo, who took leadership, because they push themselves out of there comfort level. This person of course was Miss. Gibbons she inspires me to want to break out of my shell even more, not just at kung fu but outside of it as well. Also she helped me try and go for my breaking boards, i was probably going to try and avoid it this year and try and do something private, which obviously would not of cut it, but miss Gibbons help me do it. She did not help me in training or in practicing, but she helped me through her courage's spirit, by going out of her comfort level, i was able to try and go out of mine. Also i failed at breaking the boards twice, i can easily break three boards no problem, but i am still learning my errors and trying not to condemn myself for them. Before this year started i was actually afraid of not breaking boards, now that fear is completely gone, now i just worry if i am going to break all of them, which i think i will, i know i will, i just have to keep at it. My forms for my twin hooks this year started out pretty well, but now that i have finished my twin hook form i like it a little less as if there were to many errors and i am having a hard time in trying to fix them. Now the errors i speak of are not crazy bad they just annoy me, like my form goes in a straight line, and whenever i try to change direction if feels forced and not meant to be there. But i continue working on it still learning something different about them which is always fun. Now lets talk about push ups, at the begging of the year i was doing pretty good, but then i sorta stopped doing them for a little bit, and every day that i skip the worse i felt, but i constantly came up with an excuse for myself to justify what i was doing. Then i started to realize there are no excuse the greatest enemy to accomplishing my goals is me, i am holding myself back. So i started doing them again and no excuse, i never had any the first time. So right now i am still a little bit behind, but not for long with the extra push ups i have been doing i have been catching up day by day. I started the year with lots of optimism and ambition and i am darn well going to keep it that way, because only good can come out of it. So remember guys stay extraordinary.



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