Chilly Starts and Chilli Ends
Yesterday we gathered students from all three of the different schools in the county currently training under our Kwan’s banner and got together for a big training session. It was the first steps toward...
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“Kick! Punch! It’s all in the mind….”
The mighty Master Onion-Head from PaRappa the Rapper certainly knew his stuff. My instructor returned from a week break to teach our lesson last night, and with him he brought some hard exercises and...
Hit Me, I Like It!
September’s ebbing away now and October is bearing down on us full-bore, not stopping until it arrives with a pumpkin-sized slap in the face. More power to it I say, it’s already feeling colder...
Tick…………. Tock…………….
If you were to listen to the likes of Steven Hawking, or even Albert Einstein, they’d tell you the one certain way to slow time is to travel at near-to light speed. I however,...
“Who Loves You, And Who Do You Love?!”
The famous words of Killian from The Running Man. That was as clever a title as I could come up with at this time in the morning, because last night you see, I was...
A Hard Sunday
Yesterday was hard for lots of reasons. Firstly I forgot how hard it was chasing dogs all over the dunes, I was a gorgeous day, and stood on top of those dunes looking out...
Box Clever
It’s been a busy few days. In the traditional lesson on Friday evening we pretty much just ran over all the stuff we’re going to need for this week’s(!) grading, making sure our Il...
Train Drain
I’ve had quite a hard time of it with my training recently, it’s felt very difficult at times with a lot of ‘one step forward, two steps back’ in my own mind, which hasn’t...
Creating A Human Panda (Man-da?)
I woke up this morning in pain, pain around both of my eyes. Last night I managed to not only get my first partial black eye, but to go one better and give myself...