oh training! always something going on. last night i tweaked what must have been a more serious injury than i thought from tuesday when doing lunbi caijao - i turned my upperbody (to look at polar bears) but left my lowerbody behind. that night it was my knee that was all owwie but it mysteriously stopped hurting the next day. last night, sometime during line drills, i suspect at ceshoufan, the upper right side of my back started to throb. it was a weird pain as it's right at my ribs & it hurt when i took deep breaths. i was only really able to give one loud MORE CHI & was barely able to respond back when others yelled out. mostly i clapped to give CHI back (something i love to do). i tried stretching it out, rotating my arms & shoulders. although i did opt not to do the 3 man stretch for fear an overzealous brother may whack it out even further (this tends to happen with certain folks). i went on with class with a vengeance but goddamn the pain! it was especially striking while doing chuji quantao with the gongbu at the end. i had to groan to keep from crying. i made absolutely no eye contact, kept up shallow breaths but made it through to the end with mabu gongbu strikes & again with the dingbu stretch to the sky (gotta get that name straight). surprisingly it didn't bother me too much when i did push ups & sit ups. it feels tight when i breath & it really hurts when i laugh. lucky for me, i am not suffering from a cough because that could be potentially horrible.
afterwards a small bunch of us went out for savory korean food. i suffered a lot at dinner because everyone is so goddamned funny & sweet. we had a lovely meal with great conversations that bordered on the insane. what a zany group to have! such a pleasure. sometimes i cannot believe how much i love my brothers. they never seem to stop surprising me with their experiences, commentary, perspective & humour.
quan tuo suggested a soak in the bath & that really helped! he made me take a narcotic, a small dose, that made me feel weird & sort of numbed the pain. it felt like it was there but far away. i don't usually take anything, not even headache medicine so you can imagine how much it hurt me to take such an extreme measure.
also i couldn't wallow too much. most of my brothers have injuries & pains that are constant. everyone still trains. my non-temple friends think that's crazy, of course. some have said it's irresponsible of sifu to let us continue & have commented that they think we are insane to train through these injuries. i disagree. you have to know yourself. to master yourself. the only way you will do that is to learn along the way. the body is an amazing thing. quite frankly, i have never seen anything at temple as bad despite the potential for serious injury. i have heard it said that you must train through almost anything, except perhaps a bone sticking out where it shouldn't be!
i have given myself multiple bruises from kicking my own hand or having my hand hit the top of my feiyues. since quan tuo inverted the lace-ups, i haven't hurt myself that way in a while. i have been kicked, punched, spun into my flailing brothers. i have definitely kicked others too (this is usually when i amituofo myself in front of them). i gave myself a serious black & blue & jammed my wrist doing pubu chuanzhang lunbi zaquan & no matter how many times quan tuo reminds me to slam the ground hard to propel the next part of the move, i always just tap it nicely to avoid having the same injury.
i am lucky, this will heal. quan tuo said there is a bruise & he worked on it a bit last night. it was so great to train with him & the other level 2 folks! i had dead heavy sleep & woke up better but in a haze this morning.
i'll just try not to be so easily amused today or to awkwardly wrack my body into contortions if at all possible.
the boys were good on their walk. strangely tenzin didn't pull nearly as much & mac was walking behind me as usual. neither wanted to go home from the morning romp on such a beautiful day!
more chi!
afterwards a small bunch of us went out for savory korean food. i suffered a lot at dinner because everyone is so goddamned funny & sweet. we had a lovely meal with great conversations that bordered on the insane. what a zany group to have! such a pleasure. sometimes i cannot believe how much i love my brothers. they never seem to stop surprising me with their experiences, commentary, perspective & humour.
quan tuo suggested a soak in the bath & that really helped! he made me take a narcotic, a small dose, that made me feel weird & sort of numbed the pain. it felt like it was there but far away. i don't usually take anything, not even headache medicine so you can imagine how much it hurt me to take such an extreme measure.
also i couldn't wallow too much. most of my brothers have injuries & pains that are constant. everyone still trains. my non-temple friends think that's crazy, of course. some have said it's irresponsible of sifu to let us continue & have commented that they think we are insane to train through these injuries. i disagree. you have to know yourself. to master yourself. the only way you will do that is to learn along the way. the body is an amazing thing. quite frankly, i have never seen anything at temple as bad despite the potential for serious injury. i have heard it said that you must train through almost anything, except perhaps a bone sticking out where it shouldn't be!
i have given myself multiple bruises from kicking my own hand or having my hand hit the top of my feiyues. since quan tuo inverted the lace-ups, i haven't hurt myself that way in a while. i have been kicked, punched, spun into my flailing brothers. i have definitely kicked others too (this is usually when i amituofo myself in front of them). i gave myself a serious black & blue & jammed my wrist doing pubu chuanzhang lunbi zaquan & no matter how many times quan tuo reminds me to slam the ground hard to propel the next part of the move, i always just tap it nicely to avoid having the same injury.
i am lucky, this will heal. quan tuo said there is a bruise & he worked on it a bit last night. it was so great to train with him & the other level 2 folks! i had dead heavy sleep & woke up better but in a haze this morning.
i'll just try not to be so easily amused today or to awkwardly wrack my body into contortions if at all possible.
the boys were good on their walk. strangely tenzin didn't pull nearly as much & mac was walking behind me as usual. neither wanted to go home from the morning romp on such a beautiful day!
more chi!
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