Post Banquet Thoughts

 Long time, no blog (again). Thought I'd help myself get back on track by recounting some of my thoughts from the banquet while it's still mildly fresh in my mind. As far as I can tell, the night went pretty smoothly. No major screw ups, people seem like they were enjoying themselves. Food service was significantly less stressful than I was anticipating camera mostly because I felt like I was going in with so little information, when in reality there wasn't much information to be given. An extra person at the station would have been nice, but we still managed nonetheless. The lion dance felt solid, albeit I can't comment on anyone else's performance due to being in the back half of a lion myself. My weapon demo probably was the thing I am most disappointed in. I'm sure the techniques look fine from the outside(at least to the untrained eye), but just about every single one of the kicks I threw were somehow off balance. If I had to guess, I think I was focusing too hard on my intensity, and not as much on my stances. Worst part is, is that I noticed the "unbalanced" feeling at the first of poop the two groups of kicks that I do in my form, and still managed to screw it up twice. Still, I didn't fall on my face, and my friends didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, so from a performance perspective I'm sure it was fine. That's all for the banquet, but I have some housekeeping I should address here as well. Still struggling with the "ups" (push-ups and sit-ups) requirements as I'm trying to find consistent parts of the day to sneak in those repetitions. I've been trying to do them first thing in the morning, but me at 6:00 AM seems to despise moving first thing after waking up. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying, but it is going to take some time. As well, I have set myself a bedtime routine as one of my requirements. Previously, bedtime was anywhere between 10:30 PM and 5:00 AM so I've been trying to narrow that time frame so I have more hours in the day that I can have actively planned out to some degree (it's also supposed to help with drowsiness first thing in the morning, but that doesn't kick in until you start doing it for about two months at least, so right now this kind of sucks). I've also promised myself to get at least 365 hours of "dedicated outdoors time" to help get me out of the house, breathe some actually fresh air, and keep me away from my screens. As my last requirement, I'm also bringing back my limit on video games that I brought up in my last blog (it didn't exactly get a chance to be put into action, which probably explains why the problem is still here). One last thing, my weapon of choice for this year will be the three segment staff. I haven't touched one of these things in my life, so we'll see how this goes. I haven't had much of a chance to practice either, considering this thing is taller than me at full length so I can't use it indoors, and it's currently -27°C outside. Hopefully I remember to put out one of these blogs next week, but if I don't I'll probably see you in three months (let's hope we don't go there).


Push-ups: 20/50000
Sit-ups: 20/50000
Three segment staff form: 0/1000
DMS 3,4 & 5: 0/1000
Kilometers: 25.06/1609
Sparring: 0/1000
Acts of Kindness: 4/1000
Bedtime Routine: 3/300
Dedicated Outdoors Time: 0/365
Video Game to "ups" ratio: 60-20

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