Well that was fun.

Great class tonight! I really enjoy sparing and tonight I reminded myself of an important lesson I learned early in my training.  Keep my fist tight!

I like keeping my hands loose because it keeps my overall body loose which keeps my tension down.  However when I'm not actually sparing it's easy to think that I'm making proper fists when I'm punching nothing but air.  Well tonight I managed to jamb my left ring finger while blocking a side heel.  Then later on I bent the thumb nail back on the same hand while sparing with Sihing Bjorkquist. Looser hands are all fine as long as when I want to make contact they're proper tight fists.

Important lessons re learned tonight.

Mr. Repay

Green smoothie #9

A little update as it's been a while since my last post.  It's been almost four months since I started this journey.  Durring that time I've only missed a couple of days when I was in Mexico.  It's become part of my daily routine and I couldn't be happier.  

Some things I've noticed have been a nice flattening  of my blood sugar due to the high fiber.  I feel full a lot longer and my mental state has become sharper.  I never thought I'd consume the sheer amount of raw vegetables that I'm doing but drinking them makes it so much easier.  

Green smoothie I drank after last night's class

1 liter of water

3 cups of raw spinach

3 cups of raw kale

2 raw carrots

1 raw zucchini 

1 nub of fresh ginger

1/2 cup of frozen pear

Blend and enjoy

Earth Day & a little bit everything else

I was blown away with the turn out for Earth Day pitch in an clean up this past Saturday.  I've been with the school for a lot years and I've participated in this clean up but I've never seen so many people participate.  I really loved seeing everyone genuinely excited to be there and the interaction was awesome to see.  Outside of the obvious, I find the opportunity to intereact and develop realtionships with classmates a big bonus.  We don't have enough time before and after class to to interact with each other and Earth day gave me the opportunity to just chat while picking up cigarette buts LOL!.

It's been a while since I've blogged and there are a few reasons but there aren't any reasons at the same time.  I've slowly slid back and I could feel myself about to get onto that old well worn path.  However the Earth Day event this past Saturday was exactly what I needed.  I needed to reconnect, re engage and just get back to being with my classmates.  I'm the sort of person that needs in person interation to remain engaged.  The virtual world works for me but only for a limited time.  The past month has seen me ramp up my travel with work and as a result it hasn't allowed me to attend in person during the week.  I've tried to fight to against this but I've always failed so instead of getting discouraged I've just come to realise that it is what it is.  That however doesn't mean I've given up, it means I have to make some changes as best I can to my work schedule.  When I attend at least one in person class per week, it's enough to keep me engaged for the rest of the week to be virtual.

Mr. Repay