The Carreau's Nest

 New year, renewed motivation! After last years motivational collapse I'm trying to keep this year going strong for as long as I can. My calisthenics (push-ups and sit-ups) aren't going amazing, but I'm not slacking on them either, averaging 100 on good days, but dropping significantly on bad ones (my recent sickness being a good example). Still trying to find a semi consistent time/place to perform forms on the regular. One of the main problems I've been having is my weapon, or lack thereof. My initial idea for my weapon was to use something unorthodox, something not commonly chosen but still used as a weapon. I had ideas for both a reaper scythe and a tower shield, but the problem is trying to get a hold of something like that. Because no one actually uses these things, no one makes them. Sure I could get something custom ordered online for a pretty penny, but even if I do it's still about a 6 month waiting period. Maybe I'll grab something like that next year...

    At the time I'm writing this, we just finished our weekly second degree brown belt meeting. Now that we're coming close to the end of the year there has been a lot of talk about our grading on December 3rd. Sifu Was trying to have us share our progress with the rest of the group. There was some great discussion that went on with the people that did talk in the time that we had, and even though I did have my camera off I was listening to every word, but that's not my point here. My point was that I didn't say a word, even though I was called out directly because I haven't put out a single blog post this year. I decided to keep silent, in hopes that I could write this post afterwards and convey my thoughts in a much more structured setting, rather than my usual attempt at public speaking, usually having myself lose my train of thought after one to two sentences. I thought that this would get the point across in a much more sensible manner, as well as a good excuse...