Year of the Horse

Here we are one week into the new year. The banquet was fantastic, everything went off with out a hitch. I greatly enjoyed showing off the fruits of my labor. I didn't totally screw up the dragon dance so that's good. As usual it feels a bit weird going back to a normal schedule after the past few manic weeks. Here are my personal requirements for the year:

1. Lose weight. I would like to get my weight down to about 195lb and lose 2 inches at the waist. Basically I just want to burn off fat and put some muscle back on. I don't care so much about the number on the scale so much as the love handles.

2. 2000 front thrust, side heel, roundhouse and spinning back kicks. I want to improve the quality of my kicks.

3. Learn to Lion Dance.

4. 1000 repetitions of Ma Long Khun and meteor hammer

5. Practice ALL of the curriculum techniques and combinations until I have every one memorized by name and have no doubts about my proficiency with each one.

I'm going to give a quick explanation of each of these. The lose weight goal is pretty self explanatory. To accomplish it I will need to focus more on my diet and exercise routines. The kick goal is because some of my kicks not where I would like them to be. A large part of that is due to flexibility, which I need to work on. I had learn to Lion Dance on last years list but I became the head of the dragon and changed my goal to learn to dragon dance. This year though I would like to learn the lion dance so I doubt I can be in the dragon this year.

I chose meteor hammer as my weapon form this year and I'm excited about it. I think getting practice time in will be a challenge, especially in winter. I basically can't practice it at all in my place, I don't have the room. So I will have to get my practice time in at the Kwoon until it warms up and I can start going outside more. I'm already worried about getting version one ready on time, I have a long way to go. Lastly the curriculum requirement sounds a bit vague so I'll clarify. It's a back to the basics requirement. I want to focus more on mastering the curriculum. I've always been terrible at associating the names of techniques with the actual technique. I want to have each one forever memorized by name by the end of this year.

Anyways, those are my goals for the year. I was excited to see so many new faces at the meeting yesterday. It should be a good year, I look forward to working with all of you!

Sifu Jesse Wetter

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