This Week in Martial Arts (Sept 07, 2010)

This week has not such a good week for martial arts. I got only a little
training in, but some good things still happened, and of course there is my
Taijutsu class. Thank god for that because I really needed it after training
only a little this week. I didn't train much this week for some legit reasons
not just out of laziness or something. Here is a play-by-play of my week: On
Wednesday I helped my dad pack up our truck with all of my sisters stuff on
it, we drove to Charlottetown (2 hour drive) and unpacked all of her stuff
and carried it into her apartment. After we were all done of that I ended up
staying the night. I decided that I needed to train that night so I did
before bed. I studied my taijutsu book and then I work on a technique called
Chi No Kata which teaches a sanshen, pendulum feeling. On Thursday I was
still at my sister's and by time I got home I just slept. On Friday I hung
out with a couple of my best friends (one of which was moving away the next
day). The only training I did that day was with one of my friends. We not
very seriously spared and we did some noobish capoeira. It was fun. :P On
Saturday I went out in my barn and did a boxing workout. On Sunday my mom and
Iwent to Charlottetown to visit my sister and to pick up school supplies for
me. I did some simple balance training and aruki well I waited for my mom to
pick me up from a book store. On Monday I did some Chi No Kata training and
again some Aruki before my sister and her roomates woke up. On Tuesday I went
to school, it was my first day in grade 11. Then after school I had Bujinkan
class. There were also two major good things that happened. The first one
being me buying the book Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee and starting my
Martial Arts library. I am excited to read and learn from it! :) The other
good thing to happen is that I have found a Muay Thai club in Charlottetown!
I am so physiqued out for this! :) There is of course one other good thing
that I did not talk about yet! My Bujinkan Class! This week in my Bujinkan
class we worked on the concept of Empty/Full. I can't really explain it very
well yet because I don't fully understand it, but it's something about being
relaxed and tensing a part of your body and then making the tense part relax
and tensing the opposition part of the area you were tensing before. :P After
this we worked on getting out of grabs and chokes. We did this by using our
body and "opening the door" to get out instead of just trying to pull the
persons hands away from you. :P This is my week in martial arts. It sounds
much better than I thought it was when I first started writing this blog but
there still could have been a lot more training! Thanks for reading! -Nathan
MacDonald