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Mastery 1/20

For one of my requirements this year I wanted to try something I did very unofficially a few years ago but instead formalize it as one of my personal requirements and officially write and post it this time around. I want to write a blog for each line in Stuart Emery’s Mastery, breaking it down into my personal understanding, and how it retains to my training at the time of writing it. And I’m finally getting around to doing the first one.  Mastery in one’s career and consciousness growth simply requires that we constantly produce results beyond and out if the ordinary Begin - March 23 I think what I’m struggling with is the word “constantly”. I’ll have long stretches of time where things are going smoothly, I’m making good progress, asking good questions, keeping on top of things, and then inevitably I will have a few off days which will be detrimental to my momentum which makes it so much harder to get back to that good place.  In thinking about this sentence from Mastery, I’...
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Block or Strike?

I have been focusing on my forms a lot this past week and a bit, not so much on the quantity, but trying to dive a bit deeper into my understanding on specific techniques and the movements that tie them together. Part of this is due to it being the start of the new year, and having a new forms that I have not yet looked at with the level of detail I try to give my I Ho Chaun forms, but mainly this focus is coming from our discussions in recent classes. The “weight distribution” class we had a while ago paired with the “why why why?” class from last week has really opened my brain to a whole host of new questions and ways of looking at my forms and I feel like it’s generating a lot of good questions for myself!  We have also been having really great Blackbelt classes that are inspiring me to try to better understand my vectors, and the intent behind them, and how my intent can influence my vectors and how that influences my skeleton!  Through thinking about these ideas, and ask...
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Year of the Snake Weapon Form

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My weapon form that I’m creating this year is using Reindeer Antlers!  When I asked, the zoo and the keepers were kind enough to allow me to take a pair of antlers from one of our reindeer home to develop my form with! The ones I want are from my favourite reindeer (see photo) as she is the first animal I trained a brand new behaviour with at the zoo so she has a special place in my heart. But since she is female and won’t drop her antlers until the end of the winter season I have a stand in pair of older antlers from 2 different males to use in the meantime.  When selecting my weapon for this year I had a few requirements: 1) no blades - so far all of my weapons have been bladed and I think I have a lot to learn from a weapon that does not use slicing or slashing as it’s primary strikes  2) ideally, something smaller - I wanted something a bit more compact so I could have an easier time practicing outside of the kwoon (now that I have them in my hands I’m not sure if I f...
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