Day 3 - vacation

I may be starting to slow down a bit. I declared today a rest day! and then forgot and started doing sit ups. I finally got to begin to pay back for all the help that I received from everyone when I was getting ready to grade. Today I opened the kwoon for someone to practice the fitness test, the year before I tested, several different black belts opened the kwoon so that we could practice the test. It is important to me that I get to return the favor to other people getting ready to grade.
Today I did:
50 sit ups
Acts of Kindness
- opened up the kwoon today
- chatted with two super nice people at Superstore
- made supper this morning so I wouldn't heat up the house
- made lunch for my husband

Day 2 - vacation

I am extremely tired, in a can't get enough rest kind of way. I managed to attend all my classes at kung fu today and pushed through open training until 1:30. When I came home, I went out again to help my husband with some stuff and then totally crashed on the couch when we returned home again. I don't want to stop everything and rest, I am hoping to do my requirements and meet my commitments and rest. I had a great time at the kwoon today, I learned more about how to move with my tai chi move (since finding my hips, it is a whole new world), worked super hard in the fitness class but it didn't feel like hard work (probably 'cause my partner was there and it was fun) and discovered some amazing moves for my tai chi broad sword thanks to Sifu Playter. Good day at the kwoon!
Here is what I did:
300 sit ups
200 kicks
6 tai chi broad sword
3 miles
tai chi
blog (obviously)
practiced my guitar
Acts of Kindness
- friendly to people at Safeway
- let car in traffic
- helped Mr. Smid with wrist escapes
- waved at my neighbors
- helped my husband

Day 1 - vacation

Today was a good day! My first day of holidays and I slept until almost 6 am! I truly enjoyed my workout this morning, I really concentrated on my movements, ensuring that I had good position. I slowed down my kicks in an attempt to work a different muscle group and my legs are a little sore so it may be something to incorporate more often. I didn't go for a walk this morning as I had some appointments so I had to chose between walking and work out.
What I did:
300 sit ups
200 kicks
tai chi
3 tai chi broad sword
3 lau gar
2 kempo
guitar practice
lion dancing
I am still trying to feel what is right for my tai chi sword, hopefully I can finish with that this weekend and get to practicing it over and over and over. I loved being in the lion, it is fun, hard, sweaty and a little bit scarey ('cause you don't really know where you are). I hope that I can practice again tomorrow.

Today

I am not really sure that I was totally awake when I threw my first kick this morning but it was a fun way to wake up. My cat helped me with my sit ups by sitting on my tummy and giving me kisses or at least trying to :) I think that we should write a book (as a group) titled 'how I survived I Ho Chuan with the help of my pet family'. We have a lot of great stories that we make some people smile (well, me anyways).
What I did:
150 sit ups
180 kicks
tai chi
mu long koon
tai chi broad sword (without the sword)
practiced my guitar and went to my lesson
3 miles ( no dog walk due to working at the crack of dawn)
Acts of Kindness
I slowed down and let someone in traffic
made dinner even though I wanted to put my head down and sleep
sent Katie an advertisement for a writing contest that she may be interested in
gave my husband a small present that he really liked
read and responded to as many blogs as I could

My Day

It is a pretty good time at the children's classes when the numbers are low due to the beautiful weather and vacations. We can concentrate on specific things with specific kids and really get some great work done. In one class today, we did noodle sword fighting and were able to concentrate on combinations and blocking and countering. Something we can't always do when the class is full and we have to concentrate on making sure everyone has a turn. In the beginners class we worked a lot on kicks and were able to spend some serious one to one time with our students and really help them in the areas that they were struggling in. It was a good kung fu day :)

I did:
300 sit ups
230 kicks
weights
tai chi
6 miles
no reps today - I had a little trouble with my vehicle and fixing it took my forms time
Acts of Kindness
let a lady go in front of me in line at the grocery store
let someone in traffic when I saw their non-verbal need for my lane (I learned that at the meeting on Saturday)
checked in with a couple of friends to see if they are okay
congratulated someone on their new position