Evolution of martial artists

Thats just how I see the I Ho Chuan class. The challenges and requirements that are placed in this program at first glance are overwhelming and in some ways seemingly impossible to complete. But if one stops and thinks about it, nothing is impossible if you try and you are on a team, it doesn't get better than that. I feel this is a great way to advance and accelerate ones training and awareness beyond any expectations you have ever had about yourself. This is not only a challenge but a finger pointing you down the path of mastery of your discipline and your beliefs and empathy for others.  As kung fu martial artists we already come equipped with the two main ingredients for success, hard work and discipline, the rest must be planned and followed through on our own device. I am looking forward to this challenge and working with the rest of you on the I Ho Chuan team.

My personal goals are as follows;

• To become a sihing by june. This will require extensive training and constant review of our curriculumn from beginning to end.
• Learn to play guitar and be able to compose 5 songs
• Learn to speak spanish and try to recite Mastery in spanish
• Balance my food intake to the four main food groups daily. I don't eat as much vegetables and fruits as I should so they must become a part of my daily routine
• 5000 kicks (thrust, side heel thrust, roundhouse, spinning back kick) total
• consume 1000 litres of water. The most important fuel aside from air. I am trying to stop drinking coffee, I drink way too much of this stuff and after discovering what coffee does to your body, good riddance
• sign up and utilize the physout tool thats available to help keep track of everything I am trying to accomplish

I chose kempo as my hand form because it is a great form and there is still so much to learn about all the techniques and how they flow.
I chose the sais as my weapon form because it is not only a weapon but a tool as well. It represents a circle of life, it can create life by being used to make furrows to plant seeds in the soil and can be lunged through a major organ or skull to end life.

Probably one of the toughest challenges I am going to indure is the mending of a relationship. Most of the relationships that have ended in my life have been deemed permanent, not only have I burnt the bridge, but I blew it to vapors!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone and we'll see you at class!
Brian Chervenka