Tonight's Class

I had a really good class tonight so I thought I'd write about it while it's still fresh in my mind. This is something that I wasn't doing before so when I'd think back, I'd think that I didn't have any positive experiences. 

What made tonight a good class wasn't that I did well. I struggled through parts of it, although there were a few things that I wasn't too bad at. What made the class good was my attitude. I asked for help and I tried to slow things down so I could concentrate on correct form. This is not easy to do when the heavy bags come out. Especially for a guy. All you want to do is hit it hard. But I resisted and I did feel like I made a bit of progress. Sifu Brinker also had some great things to say that really made sense to me, even if executing correctly is still quite challenging. 

It was also nice to have Sihing Chervenka pull me aside and let me know that I've been doing well. It's nice to have your hard work noticed and it confirms that I'm on the right track. The bottom line for me is that the quality of my experience in class has only changed because of my attitude. I'm not suddenly a more skilled student. I'm the same as I was before.  And I'm happy to have some positive journal entries to look back on instead of just the bad ones.

Cory Smid
http://kungfucory.blogspot.ca/