This is Saturday 7th March 2008 and I'm definately going to be struggling with my martial arts session tomorrow morning. As many of you know who are familiar with my training schedule, Friday has become 'Leg Night'. It's actually shoulder and leg night, but the shoulders seldom seem to suffer as much as the legs do.
I’ve been fortunate, over the years, in having some really
great, very skilled training partners. I’ve said elsewhere on many occasions
that whilst, on occasion, I may let myself down if I make a commitment to
train, I will never let a training partner down, either by not turning up, or
by a poor attitude to a high work ethic when I do. So I’ve been spoiled in
respect of being able to have all the benefit that training partners provide.
This cuts across all areas of training, of course, not just martial arts.
It’s often very hard to maintain a good focus for our
training given the day to day slog of it. In a very good week I will make five
training sessions and in a good week, four. So, sometimes it can feel as if the
process is never-ending, repetitive and without purpose. Well, out of the above
three one is certainly a truism and that’s the repetitiveness. By the very
nature of what we do it’s necessary to drill techniques over and over again,
honing them as required by your overall aims. The key, however, is to make the
repetitiveness interesting so as to remove the boredom.
In respect of self protection we must do both. Proactive
measures are the avoidance practices, routines and awareness issues that should
keep us out of harm’s way.
Hopefully, you have found your way here and that the process hasn't been too difficult. As I've explained elsewhere, my old site had ceased to be of value, given the areas within which I operate.
It was confusing to a martial artist who landed on my site and was confronted by men with guns throwing people over their backs and running for cover, so the decision was made to split off the specific interst areas so that they could have their own space, making it easier, I hope, for people to narrow their focus onto one site, or have access to multiple sites.
