I started staff (well, pole) on Friday. I'm very excited, as I got to see someone perform what I'll be learning and it's fantastic. Lots of spins and intense strikes.
So that morning I get my staff and was shown the flower: a slight variation on double articulation. Then I practice that for an hour and a half. Tomorrow, I'll get shown the first one or two moves of the form and I'll practice those in a similar matter. While I was spinning my staff, I realized how different my approach to training is here. I have certainly practiced one form for that long, but not just one more, especially so consistently. But the devil's in the details and I'm improving at a pretty incredible rate.
In other news, I've got a new goal with my pushups. Right now I'm doing 4x40 knuckle pushups, 40 tiger claw pushups (but in a sandpit; I won't spoil the surprise about what these look like), 40 fingertips and 40 on the back of my hands for a total of 280. On November 1st, everything will go up to 50--raising then by 10 every month, with a new type of pushup being added in the new year. I'll do that until April 1st, where everything will be at 100 for a total of 800 pushups a day. Then I'll just raise the knuckles by 25 in May and June, for a total of 1000 by June. Assuming I can cut it, I'll do 1000 pushups a day for 40 days, so on July 11th, I'll give myself a birthday present of 180,000 pushups in 9 months.
Yeah, let's see what happens.
2 comments:
you don't deserve that many push-ups for your birthday
I think that push up goal is simply awesome! Bad ass, you just motivated me to step up my push ups.
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