Success is built into failure. But you must look for it in every failure and you absolutely must not give up until you find it. Giving up is true failure. Learning from your failure is actually success. This is a lesson I learn over and over, cause I have a lot of failures, a lot. And each failure drives me to un-fail it.
Today's example is of course board breaking. I brought 13 boards to break, why 13? Well because 10 is the minimum and I don't like minimums. So everything was going great, boom bang crack smack, I'm on number 9 and Deb challenges me to do a spinning back kick. Oakey Doakey, load it up. And..... swing and a miss. I didn't even look at my target, way wide right, I may have broke wind but I did not break the board, what a let down. But wait! There is no way this is going to stop me now. Time to apply the lesson. Why did I miss? How do I not miss next time and can I repeat that correction over and over? Let's see.
Center, breathe, stance, focus to unfocus, there is no board, only Kody's face behind the board. Go! Bang, board broken. Good, but repeat, again, again (this time in the air). I knew I know better. But in a way, I am glad I didn’t break the board the first time. It forced me reset and go back to basics. And the basics work.
So while not breaking the board sucked, learning from my error and correcting it was incredibly rewarding. And what will be even more satisfying will be if this lesson sticks with me, and that is up to me.
P/up 14582
S/up 14176
Spar 440
1609 km 1907.76km
Aok 549
Hand form 485
Weapon form 425
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