So right now I am a happy little boy! Over the past couple of weeks I have had this greater than usual urge to get back in to the martial arts, and for those of you who don't know (everyone), I studied Okinawan Shuri-Ryu Karate for about 6 years as a teenager, spent some time teaching it and eventually reached Ni-Kyu, or 2nd degree brown belt before I quit. I really wish I would have just gone ahead and stuck out the last two tests so that I could have gotten my black belt, but oh well. Maybe someday.
Anyway, I've been really wanting to get back into the swing of things, but I wanted to try a different style and I had contemplated capoeira, jujitsu, kendo, and aikido, but ultimately I landed on kung fu and decided that that was what I really wanted to learn. So I started searching the web and found this cool looking school that's just a few doors down from my school and I finally stopped by today and met one of the owners (his name is Yao Li, and I like that name!) and talked to him for a while about joining the school. He seemed very chill and really seemed interested in having me join and had several of his students work a couple of forms for me to see and it was just beautiful!!! I swear, kung fu is so much like ballet, it's just so graceful and stunning to watch. Anyway, he invited me to come to an introductory lesson on Wednesday and so unless I go and totally hate it, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to join.
It's just so cool, because I feel like this sort of thing is an integral part of my life that I have been missing for so long and I didn't even realize how much I missed it until now. My music is such a wonderful release for me emotionally and creatively, but I'm also very physically connected to the world, and I haven't had much stimulation in that realm of late. Not like this, at least. Wow. I'm just elated. I guess there isn't much more to say about this, other than continuing to say how happy I am, and I''ve already done that enough, so I guess this is the end of this journal. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!
Anyway, I've been really wanting to get back into the swing of things, but I wanted to try a different style and I had contemplated capoeira, jujitsu, kendo, and aikido, but ultimately I landed on kung fu and decided that that was what I really wanted to learn. So I started searching the web and found this cool looking school that's just a few doors down from my school and I finally stopped by today and met one of the owners (his name is Yao Li, and I like that name!) and talked to him for a while about joining the school. He seemed very chill and really seemed interested in having me join and had several of his students work a couple of forms for me to see and it was just beautiful!!! I swear, kung fu is so much like ballet, it's just so graceful and stunning to watch. Anyway, he invited me to come to an introductory lesson on Wednesday and so unless I go and totally hate it, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to join.
It's just so cool, because I feel like this sort of thing is an integral part of my life that I have been missing for so long and I didn't even realize how much I missed it until now. My music is such a wonderful release for me emotionally and creatively, but I'm also very physically connected to the world, and I haven't had much stimulation in that realm of late. Not like this, at least. Wow. I'm just elated. I guess there isn't much more to say about this, other than continuing to say how happy I am, and I''ve already done that enough, so I guess this is the end of this journal. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!
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Good times, good times.