productive day

hah wiped out my entry cause i had two blogger windows opened and i closed the wrong one.

anyway, short run down of the day

finished first aid training now just waitin on my card and certificate to make it official, afterwards had a locking/breakin session with Brian Lao.  after that had a quick tai chi session with Daniel Nguyen.  while i did do a little bit of training with eskrima i definitely always wanted to start learning more of the internal martial arts.  so i'm definitely havin a bit of difficulty adjusting since eskrima's an external art.

strikes are definitely powerful, but learning to manipulate force is definitely better in a fight.  i understood that much starting out with tai chi, and while i did know a little bit about tai chi's methodology; putting it into practice IS seriously a different ball game.  what i didn't know was how important utilizing the tendons were in practice.  cause frankly the muscles are useless, and while this was  something i "knew" getting into it; it's pretty perspective shattering doing the pushing hands and then having your muscles betray you.  not only do they telegraph your movements, the more force you use the easier it is to have that force deflected.

anyways i'm gonna go practice some solo forms and then do some fingertip push ups for the hell of it cause i lost my finger strength.