Over Coming My Nervousness

Well as some of you know, sparring is one of my nervous nemesis. Last night in my class we did sparring. I had to face one classmate that I had always been nervous to spar against. I had seen this classmate spar before and he is really good at it and tough. When We bowed before our match, I was saying a few prayers to the big man up above that i would survive LOL Long story short, i must have survived if i am writing about it.

I know in life there will be mountains we must climb and fears to overcome to make us stronger and I am working on it. On a awesome note, I was told after class by one of the sihings that my sparring had improve a lot since the last time he sparred with me. that made me feel really good as I always think I suck at sparring.

Thank you to the classmate I was nervous to spar, he was great and he let me get in a few good moves LOL. I have faced my demon and survived. Onward and upward I say.

You will have to excuse my typing as I am using Brian's IPAD from work and I am trying to get use to it. Brian's work bought an IPAD and everyone on his Team were allowed to take it home and try it out so, hence the typing mess. It's different then a regular keyboard that's for sure.

Anyway that's all folks.


Susan Crawford :)

How Time Flies.....

Well I can't believe it has been 4 months since I last wrote in my journal. I have had some ups and downs with my health but, I think I am getting somewhat better. My back and knees have been bothering me lately so, I guess I will have to do more stretching to fix it. It really hurts trying to do a horse stance with my knees. I have always had issues trying to get my knees to turn out over my ankles. It's almost as if I have crooked knees and I look more like a goalie trying to stop a puck then a person trying to do a proper horse stance.

Sifu Brinker gave us a challenge in our last class, he said pick one form that you like and do it a 1000 times from now until Dec 31. He said everytime you do the form you have choosen, make a tick on a piece of paper and keep doing that. I like this challenge especially when you mark it down everytime you complete it. When you see it on paper it gives you more motivation to keep going right to the end. I like doing forms so, for me this should be a great challenge as I really want to get better at them.

I guess that's all I have to write about this time around. I am going to try and write more often then every 4 months. Most times I don't have much to say LOL.

Susan Crawford