way too many commas

August was one of my worst months numbers-wise, my wisdom tooth surgery had me put a pause an almost all of my physical training for about 2 weeks for fear of dislodging my blood clot, thus making the entire healing take even longer, so I wanted to play it safe. However I really dropped the ball on my mental requirements too. I could have been blogging the whole time, I could have been catching up on some of my personal requirements that I made specifically for time when I can't be training how I want to. I also could have been doing more to prepare, trying to bank some of my numbers so that I had a bit to fall back on. This has given me insights for the next time something like this happens, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed in myself.  With starting my new job I feel quite pressed for time (and energy), so I want to really focus on my forms for September (and onwards) because I feel this is one of my requirements that has been neglected the most.  I also tr...

 A while ago when I was asking a question after class Sifu Hayes said something about intent that I've never really realize before and it absolutely blew my mind and I've been meaning to blog about it for quite some time now. (Thankfully I took notes after the conversation to somewhat preserve the ideas while I got around to actually writing a proper blog about it)  He was explaining that having intent and having in mind a specific application is a way to give your brain more information so that your body understands better what it is supposed to do. He had me do a technique and then he moved his hand to push against to test my skeleton as if I was doing a real strike on a real person and immediately my skeleton shifted slightly in a way to support an actual strike. This made me realize that I never  really  knew what intent was, I always thought it was purely mental: trying to know exactly what you're aiming to achieve and then practicing it until your body can get ...