From Where Does Inspiration Come?

   Inspiration is funny. It can forever allude you or it can be right in front of you, just waiting for you to notice it. It is a Ninja and an raging Elephant all at the same time, mysterious but obvious, silent but a deafening din, amazing but mundane. So to acknowledge it's omnipresence, I will throw a couple of recent events that have inspired me. 

   Todia M Ward. Working with you on your board break sequence has inspired my back fist. To have to explain what I "feel" made my understanding of what I was doing snap into focus, even though we were working on a hammer fist. Funny coincidence but there it was, right in front of me.

   Sifu M Hayes. Taking down the Lion the other night, you popped right up on top of the bag like it was just a small step over a small stone. WOW! My jaw hit the ground! Suddenly all my excuses of age and non-fitness seemed absolutely ridiculous. I was in bewilderment of my mediocracy, staring me right in the face like a disappointed parent shaking their head at their lazy child. If that didn't inspire me, nothing ever will.

   Todia M Ferris. Your ability to recite all the kid's name like the are your own children, truly masterful. I bow to your ability to be in absolute control over this. 

   Sifu K Rybak. Your ability to throw AHA moments at us, pure awesome sauce. The whole stance thing last week, you must have seen nothing but deers in the headlights from us. Pure "what the??" not just by the students you were teaching at the time but by me as well. Makes so much sense, how could it have been there all along, in plain sight, hiding within 50000. Six harmonies that are one, flow, intent, power, Chi, all right there for the world to see. Mind blown. 

   So this is just last week, and only but a few of the top events that really stand out. It goes to show me that inspiration is everywhere. All you need do is to just look for it and it will reveal itself.