Wednesday April 30
Today was Power Training. i woke up scared. I knew how much pain i would be in today! This whole week i felt like a new student so i knew today would be incredibly hard just like my first time doing power training.
Morning classes went well, learned a couple moves in both WingChun and Baji classes. Then Lunch came. The nervousness grew because i knew after my lunch break...PAIN!! When class started i ran to the Gate like usual which is past our usual running tree, about ten minutes longer, and began warm ups. By then i was eager to start power training. Maybe i just wanted to get it over with or my adreniline pumped into my blood stream but i was ready.
We started doing drills in the big training hall. The past Power training days we would do drills from one end of the hall to the middle, turn around and come back. Today we went from one end to the other! My legs were on fire! But i pushed myself to finish because i couldnt let the new students beat me. I pushed it out and finished the rest of the drills. Once we finished we started power stretching. I was more scared of master guo walking around and stretching me than the drills so the nervousness came back!
He went on my end of the row to start the stretches. It is the worst to start first because you have to wait the longest. Meaning, Master Guo walks around the class stretching each of us. If were first we have to hold the low position the longest rather than the last person who only has to wait a little then switch. well i started first. I thought my legs were going to rip off. Ash was next to me and i can hear him laugh at me. Then master Guo walked over to him and i heard him say, "Uh Oh." That made me laugh. Once we finished stretching we had to do planks on our knuckles. We usually do 7 or 8 minutes on our knuckles but today we only did 5 minutes on our knuckles... but we had to do them ON A DECLINE! It was worse! I was struggling! I can do 7 minutes no problem but 5 minutes on a decline felt like i was going to fall on my face! At the end of class it was hard to walk, i was sore and exhuasted.
I got an early night sleep after dinner. Luckily we have a break tomorrow before lunch.
Thursday
Tomorrow there might be sparring so this morning i talked with jake and decided to do some drills like we did tuesday night to prepare for sparring.
Morning class was circut training, a version of power training but with upper body drills rather than lower body drills. I was glad to see i could still manage all the drills deciently well.
Afternoon class was San Da. I saw some of the new students trying to do the combos and it reminded me of my puppy. When my 4 month old puppy jumps after a ball or a toy he looks so uncoordinated. It looks sloppy and clumsy rather than the way an older dog can pounce on the target with the correct speed and force. Well the new guys looked like puppies. But as a puppy grows, so will the fighters here. I am not the best and i am still learning. I am just a 7 month old puppy here.
After dinner i did late night sparring with jake. we did some blocking drills and light sparring. I am going to wake up early to get ready for the day and spar with jake again before breakfast so we feel ready. I do not want to spar tomorrow because i am in so much pain from this week. But i have a feeling i wont have a choice.
On my way to the room it was only 7:30pm and everyone is in their room sleeping. its the night before "war breaks out. Peace and quite.
Goodnight
Friday
Turns out not enough people wanted to spar due to injuries from last week and too many people are away on holiday, so we spar next week for sure. Training went well as usual. Didnt learn any new moves to my forms. Master Guo just went around to cretique our forms. Grading is coming up next month so i might grade a couple forms.
After lunch it was the Mountain run. I was still sore from Power training and Circut training! I ended up doing bear crawls down the stairs and jumping up on the way back. On my 5th bear crawl a tour bus came to visit the temple. I was doing bear crawls with another classmate at the time. I paid no attention and kept on with my workout but since i had an audience watching i would not take any breaks and do a bear crawl after the other. The tour was full of chinese people and they even tried to hop up the steps with me and cheered us on when we would slow down on our bear crawls. By the 15th bear crawl i was done. Only had to do 10 but i enjoyed having an audience. Ash and I headed back to the academy and we got ready to go out to dinner with some of the guys in Yantai.
Had a relaxing night out. Went and did some singing at KTV as well. Now i am back at the academy resting. Tomorrow is sunday so i have another day of rest. Will probably do some cleaning and just prepare for next week. It will be May tomorrow and MAster Guo said starting in May he will train Matheiu, Raven, and I extra after classes. I can't wait.
-Scott
I got an early night sleep after dinner. Luckily we have a break tomorrow before lunch.
Thursday
Tomorrow there might be sparring so this morning i talked with jake and decided to do some drills like we did tuesday night to prepare for sparring.
Morning class was circut training, a version of power training but with upper body drills rather than lower body drills. I was glad to see i could still manage all the drills deciently well.
Afternoon class was San Da. I saw some of the new students trying to do the combos and it reminded me of my puppy. When my 4 month old puppy jumps after a ball or a toy he looks so uncoordinated. It looks sloppy and clumsy rather than the way an older dog can pounce on the target with the correct speed and force. Well the new guys looked like puppies. But as a puppy grows, so will the fighters here. I am not the best and i am still learning. I am just a 7 month old puppy here.
After dinner i did late night sparring with jake. we did some blocking drills and light sparring. I am going to wake up early to get ready for the day and spar with jake again before breakfast so we feel ready. I do not want to spar tomorrow because i am in so much pain from this week. But i have a feeling i wont have a choice.
On my way to the room it was only 7:30pm and everyone is in their room sleeping. its the night before "war breaks out. Peace and quite.
Goodnight
Friday
Turns out not enough people wanted to spar due to injuries from last week and too many people are away on holiday, so we spar next week for sure. Training went well as usual. Didnt learn any new moves to my forms. Master Guo just went around to cretique our forms. Grading is coming up next month so i might grade a couple forms.
After lunch it was the Mountain run. I was still sore from Power training and Circut training! I ended up doing bear crawls down the stairs and jumping up on the way back. On my 5th bear crawl a tour bus came to visit the temple. I was doing bear crawls with another classmate at the time. I paid no attention and kept on with my workout but since i had an audience watching i would not take any breaks and do a bear crawl after the other. The tour was full of chinese people and they even tried to hop up the steps with me and cheered us on when we would slow down on our bear crawls. By the 15th bear crawl i was done. Only had to do 10 but i enjoyed having an audience. Ash and I headed back to the academy and we got ready to go out to dinner with some of the guys in Yantai.
Had a relaxing night out. Went and did some singing at KTV as well. Now i am back at the academy resting. Tomorrow is sunday so i have another day of rest. Will probably do some cleaning and just prepare for next week. It will be May tomorrow and MAster Guo said starting in May he will train Matheiu, Raven, and I extra after classes. I can't wait.
-Scott
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