WOWZERS!!

Oh yah!  Saturday was awesome!  I worked out for 3 hours at the kung fu school, then 1 hour at the gym on the bike.  I felt so focused, and involved in what I was doing, and I felt the focus of others that were there too.  The next day, Sunday, my friend and I biked 25 k in the rural area north of spruce and stony.  It was a great weekend!

I was so grateful to all the members, and students that showed up at open training to spar.  There were 14 of us:

• Sifu Wetter
• Sifu Kichko
• Sifu Bryant
• Sifu Harrigan
• Sifu Beckett
• Sinhing Robinson
• Sihing Regier
• Mr. Regier Jr.
• Sihing Choy
• Sinhing Chessel
• Mr. Hamilton
• Sihing Langner
• Mr. Leung 
• Myself

The spirit of what we were doing was a great feeling in the room.  The spirit of HOW we were doing it-filled the room to capacity.  We were doing it together!  And it felt great!  I was overcome with gratitude.  Everyone worked together, was supportive, and encouraging.  I took a round house to the side of my head that made my ear ring a bit, and 5 seconds later, I took some kind of spinning kick to the other side of my head.  This made me a bit nervous, as I am not too confident as it is, but I am happy to say that there is no permanent damage.

I loved how it felt to be united and took an opportunity to share my feelings with everyone as we took a small breather.  I expressed my apologies to everyone for not being much of a team member and trudging along forward on my own.  I feel like I really missed the boat on this one, and I feel sorry for not realizing this sooner.  I encouraged everyone to help unite us all by reading journals, calling out for help, getting others to join in pushups or whatever they may be behind in.  A few others added their comments as well, and we were joined in our quest.  I loved it.

I am sorry to be missing this weekend as I attend a conference out of town, but I will be encouraging the team from a distance.  I hope we can keep up the open training sparring as I know for a fact that it did me a ton of good.  (aside from the hits to the head)  :)  If it did me that much good in one day, then I can imagine how much it will help me if we do it more. I have to say that it did me good not only to get some minutes with my sparring, but the unity within the team that I felt helped me immensely for my mental state.  It proved to me that I am NOT alone, and that I have others to help, uplift, encourage and support.  Sometimes I feel bad and unsettled when our results and how we are doing is often negative.  I think I need to try harder to keep everyone moving forward and add positive feedback.  I can't do it on my own, but I know how the rippling effect works and I am counting on it working here.  We, on this team are all good people and we are trying to do extraordinary things.  I commend the whole team for that and I am proud to know these people and have them be a part of my life.