This weekend is the East Meets West seminar, and I’m looking forward to it greatly. I’m trying to recover from a (stupid) back injury but will be there no matter what. Anyone else going? Has anyone been living under a rock and not heard of it? If you get a chance, please say hi – I’ll be easy to find. Look for the young guy walking like an old man. By the way, if you are doing standing barbell bicep curls and you catch yourself breaking form to get ‘just one more’ and get away with it, don’t go for another.
CanAm Martial Arts is back up.
Once (or twice) upon a time there was a bulletin board trying to bring together Canadian and American martial artists. I never quite registered – until now. The CanAm Martial Arts board is up again, and it has among many other things, a Shaolin Kempo section. Please go and register and ask intelligent questions (and hopefully give intelligent answers). I think it’s a promising place to address some of the questions I’ve been having, and I think I’ll tend to pose them on their board. I’ll be frequenting it, and I hope to see you there.
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Fitness, part of or in support of kempo?
I’ve been on a fitness kick lately. I took a ‘Physiology of Exercise’ course this summer, and really wrapped my head around what I need to do for my own fitness needs. I adjusted my cardio, and picked up some weights. What consideration do you give fitness in your kempo practice, and teachers, what fitness elements do you include in class.
I’ve often thought of conditioning as a separate domain from the skillset that includes ‘the fighting arts’. I include fitness in my classes, but I don’t confuse that with the learned skill of kempo.
How do you see it? How do you do it?
