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I made a life changing decision a little while a go. I decided that I should go back to school and finish getting my Masters Degree in Computer Networking and Security. I registered for classes, and am currently scheduled for one class this semester. I plan on taking only one class a semester, and one in the summer. So that school doesn’t interfere too much with my personal and professional life. The problem that arose this semester is that the class I am registered for is on Wednesday night from 6-9. This is a problem as Hsing Yi is from 6:30-7:30, and Pa Kua is from 7:30-8:30. This problem is made more so by the fact that Hsing Yi and Pa Kua classes only happen once a week. So for the next four months I will not be learning Hsing Yi and Pa Kua. I am however planning on taking what ever private time I have in the school, when no one else shows up for the advanced class, and working on Pa Kua. I think I have Hsing Yi down well enough that it will not be too detrimental to take the four months off from it. I will obviously spend some time working on it, so it does not get too rusty, but for the most part my “private” classes will focus on Pa Kua.

As I said in my last post we made a few new youtube videos. Tim has finished editing them, and has posted them online. I have embedded them here so you can see me doing chin na 3 with tim, and getting beat up by sifu. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I worked long on hard on my martial arts training. I got beat up pretty had for about four hours. It started off with doing Hua Chuan 4 with Tim. Then we ran through all of the Chin Na sets. In total this was about an hour to an hour and a half of two man fighting sets. Which as anyone who has done two man routines knows, tires you out pretty good. I then left from the kwoon and went to the judo dojo. Had very intense warm up workout that left my already tired body nearly spent. From there we went onto the actual judo training. Did some flipping, and tripping, then came the strangulation techniques. I proceeded to get the life strangled out of me. The techniques are really nice, and very VERY affective, but man let me tell you they suck to get put in. Especially once you are already worn out. After all was said and done, my neck was cramped, and my body was a shell of its former self. Once I finished my hour and a half of judo training I had to high tail it back to the kwoon for some “fun”. We car filming some videos to put up on youtube, Chin Na sets, applications, full forms, etc. Last night we filmed Hua Chuan 2, China Na 3, and an application of Snake from Hsing Yi. It should go with out saying that I was the punching bag that got beat through out all of these. I was thrown, flipped, and my arm severely locked multiple time during the hour long filming session. My body is still soar, and I ache all over. I’m forever grateful that today, tuesday, I have not martial arts training, and can just stretch, and rest off the bruises, abuse my body has taken yesterday. Once the videos are “edited” and posted to youtube I will link to them here.