Looking Back and Looking Forwards

Traditional month has continued in the same veign as it started, although i think all of the instructors are desperately trying not to slip back in to sports karate mode. The punishments are still coming thick and fast though... the students may have forgotten to say adress us correctly but we havent forgotten to punish them! I dont actually know how many press ups i ahev done this month! Not as punishments but simply from joining in the class. I do need to practice some more flashy ones though.

Training has continued in much the same as normal, visits to the gym and Coalville twice a week to train. The new timetable for instructors now means that we have our CIT training in the evenings again and not in the mornings. The timing of this means that again i will miss out from time to time but having a purple belts and over class starting soon at Coalville means that more specific higher level drils and self defence will now become a far more regular affair. In additon, and this is a big one!, no longer training in the mornings for cit now means i can do my own training before work again. The advantage being i can now taylor what i do to what i need to concentrate on and in additon, to a lesser degree, on the days where i do feel truely knackered and know that i should rest i can have an extra hour in bed. Although knowing me i wont take adavantage of this, purely down to my nature.

Sleep is defiantely an area i need to work on. To improve and stay more motivated i need more rest, i may not a champion world class 'as seen on tv' fighter or athelete but i do push mybody quiet hard most weeks and having done so for almost 18months 2 years now, there are time where my whole body just feels heavy.

Tommorrow is the WUMA euro open in Worcester. Having not fought in a points competition for a while Sensei Craig has put me forward to fight as part of the The RSL Sponsoured Stealth Black Belt Academy - elite squad. Checking up on the website i have noticed that there is a kata section as well as points and will be entering the Korean section of this in order to see how i fair against some god quality opposition. In additon i WANT one of the trophies from this event they are nice and big will look very good in Barwell studio. I could do with the ego boost at the moment!

I am some what nervous about tommorrow, purely ring rust though. Ross has a great deal of drive at the moment for winnig competiions, i wanted to know where he got his energy from....
but thinking back i realised when i was a purple belt i was exatly the same, i wanted to compete and did so, sometimes twice or even three competitions a month. In doing so you condition yourself to fight in competitions, the nerves, the wainting and what to eat and when. The break from pushing for my second dan may afford me more space to do this.

Craig seems to think so, having signed me up for a light contact fight at a fight night in two weeks time, having wanted him to set me up a fihgt ina few months so i could train for it and nothing but that, two weeks is not what i had in mind. Having cut weight to meet put myslef a the top of my catagory tommorrow come sunday night i will start the opposite approach.... eating!!! Plenty of carbs but all the good stuff.

Best practice continous, BIG STYLE!!!!!!!!