Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009 2:05PM /
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I have been a long time gone from here...and my thoughts would sometimes wonder and I would try and remember to come back!... Funny how life gets in the way! All I can say, it has been a tough year and I am back to my training Yeah!! ...being injured really put me in a funk, If I can not train,then you might as well shoot me! The greater energy heard my wish and I could not be a luckier student of the art. I am training Hap ki mo do under Grand master ki Yoon ,he is the president of 80 schools in Korea and he lives here in Calgary. How lucky to be in the presence of this man who tells me stories in broken english about training in the mountains and how his master pushed him down a long slope into an icy lake in the middle of winter and after he climbed back up his master asked him if he still wanted to train or go home...Hearing these stories leave me breathless and wanting so bad to have that kind of training ( I know I am weird!)In the last six months ,I have made it to my green belt and like always my thoughts are with the art I am glad to be back
Ps still no boyfriend...I guess I am just not ready or I am waiting for my Bruce Lee ;)
Peace
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:37AM /
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So I am lying on this bed getting accupuncture and the guy says... your lower back is in total spasm what kinda exercise do you do? I said ,Kung Fu ! and then he says Oh I guess I wont mess with you hahaha! I should of expected this reaction ,but it always still surprises me! I told him it is not about the fight , but how it makes you feel...the fight is just the icing on the cake!. I know I have been hard on my body,but I am pretty sure most of the damge was done back in my 20's .How can you explain to someone why you train such a sport with so many injuries? I will tell you how I feel about it! learning the art is a progression ,it does not come in one answer ..but in many! lets face it when we first start to train it is about the fight ,so you train and train hard! then it becomes an addiction then slowly you become it and it becomes you! Some martial artist train for their whole careers never getting past the fight and totaly miss the beauty ..for shame! If we as older students could know then what we know now we would have not been in such a rush! The ultimate in training is when you are no longer using force but redirecting negative energy coming your way..Now that is true beauty ,that is Kung Fu!
I wish every one peace and good training :):)
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Friday, Apr 18, 2008 2:00AM /
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You know as I have the privaledge to teach this art , I can't help but travel back to the first days of my training, How exciting and frustrating all at the same time! I see this in my younger students and I tell them... Never assume you know a form or technique,unless it is reaction instead of thought ! You have not mastered a thing ! and that says alot , because our Grand master and masters still come out to train the basics ! I say this more to my younger belts in sparring. They come to me frustrated becausethey are still thinking their next move or their anxious to get to the next belt level . I tell them that each step is vital!!, this is the foundation of their art,also to imagine they are blind, first you would have to learn how to read braille , inorder to read the book...so think of your art as such, practise your forms and techniques all the time,let them become a part of you and after a while it will flow like water because you can finally see the forms for what they truly mean!
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Friday, Apr 18, 2008 2:00AM /
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Let's talk about what it is , why we are here! is it about the practitioner or is it truly what we practise! Looking back I remember the work , and even younger still in the art not truly understanding what I was actualy really learning...a way of life! I probably could never put in words what most martial artists feel when they train! By no means is a true student feeling hostile during a moment of enlightenment! every belt or level a testament to ones commitment, Yet you could take away someones belt ...but never take whats apart of them, their knowledge! What it is , is suttle secrets by slight of hand or turn of the wrist,which comes in different ideas to the one who learns to see! The most beautiful gift created by mans ideas and dedication to the art , I cannot thank enough or respect enough the practioners of the past who have given us this gift!
Be still, and then you will see!
Your student Giselle
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