Aviva's Blog

The last week I haven't felt great, I did something to me back and wasn't able to do much kung fu. I didn't do my push-ups and sit-ups.  Now I am pretty behind. Even though my back is feeling better, I still haven't been able to get back into my schedule. I know that its not hard, but starting is a mental challenge not physical, and I keep on putting it back on my list. I know when I start again it will all fall back into place, but how long is it going to take before it slips to the back of my list again.

Learning a new weapon is always nerve racking for me. It feels like a totally new language, so much you don't know but at the same time you want to learn it all. This year I picked the Tonfa for my weapon. The first IHC class was when I started thinking about what I wanted to put into my form. Mostly I was just forming moves and practicing those. I didn't really know how to use the Tonfas since most of the videos I found on YouTube were going very fast. I knew of the basic idea of Tonfa and had fiddled around with them for the last couple weeks. When I went to open training, Sihing Bjorkquist gave me two books on Tonfas. It showed me different moves and techniques. I went through them and learned different strikes and then worked on some of the flips.  Now I'm actually very excited to make my new form! I can't wait to see what other moves I will learn through this next year.

I started going to the level one adult class this week. Before I went, I was extremally nervous, I had no idea what I would do. When I was there I felt very awkward, I was just standing in the back. Then someone needed a partner and was available. Both of the adult classes are basically the same concept. It helped me notice things that I haven't before. Its like reading a book twice. For the first time you just go along with the story but when you read it the second time you see things that you hadn't seen before. After the classes I felt like I had learned so many new thing when it was only review.