Julius Anastasio is a Green Belt at Wu Dao
(hŭ tóu shé wĕi)
It's an old Chinese proverb that captures how too many of us approach new ideas, activities and assignments. We start out doing many things with the gung-ho enthusiastic abandon that's usually reserved for soccer fanatics (i.e. the tiger's head). Inevitably, time whittles away at that initial ferocity, until our involvement looks as flimsy and inconsequential as, you guessed it, the proverbial snake's tail.
I'm currently fighting to avoid this proverb's lackluster results, as my training has wained a bit in this past week. I still go out almost every day and train for a good hour to an hour and a half, but what I accomplish during that time is decreasing. I didn't THINK the sheer repetition of practicing forms over and over would get to me, but maybe it is. Either that, or my body is having a hard time waking up in early mornings I've been training (6:15am is early). When I think about it, my body hasn't really felt fresh in weeks. Trying to adjust to such a heavy training load in such humid weather is probably contributing to this constant struggle for momentum.
Despite all the aforementioned whining, I've been feeling an marked difference in how my forms feel, as well as my overall comfort while training. Sure, my legs might feel like they're trudging through molasses while I'm practicing kung fu, but they're trudging more naturally through that molasses than they were a month ago.
Days until tournament: 25
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