1000 pushups, 1000 situps. Hangouts and real talk with my friends.
A little bit of vegan chinese food.
Beating mega man 2 on the NES in one sitting.
New year and new ubbt. Good start.
Speaking of ubbt, here's my requirements:
UBBT 7: even more ultimate, I guess?
The core:
-Blog once a week
-No quitting!
Keeyah!:
-at least 1 hour a day of mindful, constant practice
-Devise and achieve two variations for all applications, one varies intent (that is, outcome), the other the original attack (for example, a defense against a kick is now against a hook). At least 50% of original moves must remain. Perform two sets (on different days) of 50 repetitions of both variations and the original application. This is because I've realized that I had trained mindlessly for a large chunk of my martial arts career. Just doing the moves is insufficient, I need to understand them in both mind and body.
-Learn the Tai Chi short form
-A once a month revisit of all curriculum techniques
-1000 reps of Kempo.
-500 reps of three section staff, culminating in a blindfolded performance and a newly designed form.
-224 reps a year of all other forms (4 a week), including weapon and Shaolin forms.
-At least half of daily practice must be applications or techniques, including kicks.
-15 minutes a day of mediation
-20 minutes a day of Tai Chi.
-Partner stretching 5 times a week: toe touching, shoulders, hips, back and splits. Starting with 30 seconds each, increasing by 5 seconds every month.
-The four dynamic stretch kicks (stiff swinging, inside/outside cyclone, side swinging) for warm up every day before practice.
-Conditioning every day
Check out my biceps:
-200,000 pushups. Dear me, that's a large number.
-200,000 situps.
-Power training three times a week. This will be around 1 1/2 hours of shaolin style brutalization, geared towards building fighting strength and endurance.
-Biking at least 40 km a week, whether stationary or real world. Includes two sessions of at least 15km. This may go up--I'm just pulling a number out of thin air for biking.
Starting new things:
-Start a new martial art, but not until at least June. I need to get into a good practice routine before branching out again.
-Take a reality based self defense course, one that focuses on the psychology of self-defense.
-Receive instructor certification in the UBBT anger management course
-Start or join a motivated hardcore band that practices regularly
Pen and Paper:
-Write (creatively) for at least 30 minutes a day.
-Write at least one good story a month. A longer one (~10000 words) can be worked on for two months, but the key is more output than usual.
-Write at least one high quality, academic style 10 page paper in August as a warm up for school.
-Write 5 essays over 5 pages on the assumptions and mental habits of a particular area of my life.
-Write a 10 page paper summarizing the major historical paradigms (using Kuhn's writing on science) of the martial arts, with emphasis on the past 50 years.
-Write a 10 page paper on the current attitudes and paradigms of the martial arts, analyzing the business, the influence of sport fighting and mma, and which (if any) of these paradigms the UBBT is challenging. Also summarize the fundamental approaches to training most take, and suggest new, little used, or combined ones the community could benefit from.
Community:
-Consistently (once a week at least) volunteer in an organization that promotes real, local good.
-Contribute to (heavily) or lead at least 5 community projects. At least 3 must be unaffiliated with Silent River.
-Encourage and help promote shows in Vancouver, with the aim of developing a more thriving punk and hardcore scene there.
-Reject consumerism in my daily life as thoroughly and practically as I can. Use tactics such as dumpster diving, growing my own food/making my own stuff and trading communities. When I do buy things, preference to local, DIY or used goods. Heavily promote the benefits of this lifestyle to others, possibly through organizations.
-1000 acts of kindness
-Reduce my plastic and disposables usage to a minimum level (this will begin with a one month evaluation of how much I use)
2 comments:
Wow - that list is full of awesome awesomeness.
Not sure how you had time to journal with all of this on your plate. This is a fine example of seizing the opportunities before you. You are really taking advantage of what your China experience has to offer and you are taking that to the limit.
Whether or not you achieve everything you have set out to achieve will be irrelevant if you stay engaged in the process for the whole year. Stay focused on all of this and you will define mastery for the rest of us. I like this a lot.
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