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A couple of weeks ago I had volunteered to help out in the Level 2 Young Dragons class and for the first half of class they were running circuits. Todai Ferris was really trying to encourage the kids to push themselves during each interval. While some kids were unconcerned and just moving from station to station, many of them had this intense fire in their eyes that absolutely astounded me.

Not to say that I don't expect much from these kids, I've seen some really great efforts and fantastic techniques from them plenty of times but sometimes in class they get chatty or unfocused or goof off, fair enough they're kids, that's par for the course, I was like that plenty of times when I first started too.

As much as I try to ignore it, recently a lot of my thinking has been centered around grading day, when we're in class I try to put in as much effort as I can, I try to put myself in that mindset of being exhausted and still having hours left, trying to imagine the pressure of this one big day . . . and those kids had none of that. It was just a regular Thursday night class for them, and yet they had such intensity, such a fierceness, sometimes I swear I could physically see them digging a little deeper and keep pushing, and it was so inspiring. 

Ever since that class I have been trying to emulate their intensity and follow their example of always giving everything you can to kung fu, not for the sake of any deadline or test, but to make yourself stronger than you were before. 


15/30 finally made it half way whoo hoo!


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