Thursday nights' I Ho Chuan class was embarrassing for me. To say I messed my form up when it was time to shine would be an understatement. When it was time to do my part of our demo, poof, gone, nothing. My mind was everywhere else EXCEPT Kung Fu. I can throw out all sorts of excuses ( short staffed, busy at work, tomorrows' to do list,etc.. ), but it was all on me. I want to apologize not only to Kody for my failure but to the team for me not being prepared to do my best, I should have been there in the moment, not thinking about work, my bad.
It was a hard but valuable lesson to learn. The importance of being in the moment in class, to only have what you are doing right here right now in your thoughts, ignoring the outside pulls of life, has never been more clear to me than it is now. I always assumed I was able to multitask much more efficiently, able to put the moment at the front of my mind and temporarily ignore the other "stuff". Guess I was wrong.
Again an unexpected lesson from Kung Fu that pops up when you least expect it. Not only a lesson in centering your thoughts to be in the moment but one that punched my Ego right in the face and said "wake up, pay attention, slow down, you can't do it all at the same time!". Wow, humbling.
As for the demo itself, Saturdays' practice looked great! I am excited to see it all come together with the forms, weapons, a dragon and a lion!
Number next week, out of time today.
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