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Thursday, 26 March 2009

  • Thoughts on the Art of Judo

    Judo is so different, you feel it, it's crazy cause you can do it with your eyes closed. As soon as you touch your opponent's gi you can feel his skill, his balance, you can feel his energy, chi, flowing. The feeling of knowing is so exhilarating. It's not a feeling of superiority or conscious expression of victory, it's more like feeling that it's there and you simply let the throw happen as though it's doing the will of God. it is a split second of pure joy. Feeling like you know what you're doing is something when you're telling someone how to do something, but this is different. It's like music; when you play music you feel a beat and a series of notes and it makes your soul happy, that split second when everything smoothly falls into place and your chi flows with the chi of your opponent---or rather, not your opponent, your partner---the soul is happy.

Friday, 20 February 2009

  • I just got on xanga because something made me angry enough to post it on my blog (gasp!).... now I can't remember what it was and I'm a terrible need to express something... btw, do you like peanut butter? I love peanut butter... I love the Nature Valley peanut butter bars. they save me a lot of money by eating them instead of eating a burrito at a taco truck while I'm at school. they're pretty much awesome. it's like peanuts, and grains, solidified in honey and covered in peanut butter... **goosebumps** it's like eating a piece of heaven. but a burrito kinda sounds good right now... hmmm.

    oh! it was something I read on Yahoo! news... an article about why guys commit and why they don't commit... one of the things it brought up was the issue of guys being jocks and choosing the sport over the girl, when the girl hates sports. it makes me wanna ask how they got together in the first place if she hates sports so much, but I digress. on the subject of priorities; why would a girl strip a man of his passion?? is it so bad that he has something he loves to do? I'm sorry to say this, but a woman shouldn't be the center of a man's world, she should be more like the gravy. you simply can't eat mashed potatoes without gravy! I'm all for charishing and loving your spouse and all that sugar pie hunny bunch stuff, but come on! you can't be so selfish that you ask your man to stop doing something he finds joy in... if you think that if he won't you don't won't him anyway... lol, wow, so vain, a guy shouldn't want someone who wants to control his life like that.

    anyway! don't want to step on any toes, didn't aim this at anyone in specific. I'm just addressing a seemingly common thought. Let me know what you think.

Friday, 19 December 2008

  • Something Inside Me

    Whenever I'm practicing martial arts I feel this instinct of the highest order. It resembles a snake, a movement that has no strain on bodily limitations... like utilizing every perfect angle in the body. Visions come at me vaguely and I see it while I'm practicing; my body wants to do it like that, but I don't know how. Not yet.

    I'm starting to understand why one can't truly learn until they've acquired first dan (black belt) it's like how you need to show a child how to walk before he can run. well, I'm still learn how to walk, but I am starting to understand what it means to run. I think...

    When my brother was in martial arts and I was just a wee' lad he told me about a concept that I though was malarchy: Everyone knows the movements in martial arts, you just don't know it. at the time I was like, "huh?" But it kinda makes sense when you think about it. Stuff that I'm learning now in martial arts as I'm learning the core basics in TKD and I'm middle rank in Judo I see that things that should be "common knowledge" like it should be obvious that it's how I should move--but I didn't move like that before until I was set on that path... like an intricate net of correct movements people who find movements they like, then they show other people and it becomes a well known style--but there are millions of correct movements that are discovered by certain styles using a core concept... it just keeps growing and growing the idea of how many forms you can find in your own self after experimenting with your body, reading where your fists want to go, where it molds into, how it forms into the best movement possible for the user.

Saturday, 22 November 2008

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

  • guitars, tiki bars, and a whole lot of love

    I supposed today that I should write ya'll a blog post seeing that I got out of class early, aren't you proud of me?

    Don't be. Not yet. I've yet to write it and there is no telling if I decide to post this or not. I think I often (too often) start writing a post to get stuff off my chest and then feel satisfied before I finish it, so I stop writing it and I never post it. Days later I come to my computer and find the same window up, read what I wrote, and then just back out of the window without posting... is this a crime? I probably should just hit the "save" button but I don't really feel like it, besides, I don't write for my readers, I write more or less for myself.

    That's a thought, there, a blog being used as a journal? maybe I should remember that more and I may post more useless banter like I'm doing right now. If not for my readers I may post whenever I feel like IMing someone and telling them something completely random and stupid that they don't care about like, "my cat died!" or some such thing.

    Carter Williams, a K1 fighter champion from Modesto is coming to train for UFC at the Taekwondo dojo I attend. I'm kind of excited because I was invited to train with him along with a few other adults in the class. That should be interesting. I'll probably learn a lot from someone in MMA. In the past I've thought about competing in MMA. Right now I'm focusing on mastering Judo, but perhaps that'll lead me to competing in MMA if I keep training in TKD. Yeah, that'll be a mean combination...

     

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  • I'm a man seeking his own self, but seeking Him first. I don't want to start living, I want to continue living my life just with more horizons. I'm not as bright as some people, but I'm a deep thinker. If I don't seem to have passion I probably simply don't like the things I'm around. I'm an introvert, so don't misunderstand my sometimes cold personality; I actually love people, just give me my space. Someday you'll see my name on a book cover in Barnes and Noble. Someday I'll have kids and I'll name my first daughter Neva. Someday you'll see me living my dreams. Today I'm growing.

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