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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Sihing Langner

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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Sihing Langner

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

 (i could not think of a better title name)
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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Sihing Langner