Shira's blogs

   This week was spring break so I had more time on my  hands. My siblings and I did some sparring in our garage in the mornings. We did about ten rounds each. The first few times it was sort of overwhelming and challenging but then it got a bit better. This is most likely because I have not sparred in a long time. I guess the more I practice sparring, the more comfortable I will become. 

          I have been falling behind on some of my forms for a while, but the weekends are helpful for me because I am able to catch up on my forms. The weekends are more open and I have more free time to work and improve my forms. Last weekend I worked on my forms a bit outside with my family which was nice. So it was good to get back on track with doing my forms. 

As I said before I am doing the broadsword form for my weapon this year. In the last I Ho Chuan class we “presented” sort of what we had learned so far and I was really nervous as well. Although it was good to get it over with because next time it won’t be as scary as this time was. I have learnt a bit more to the form since then. I’m feeling confident that I will have some more to the form by when the deadline comes around. 

Kung fu in person is quite a bit different than it is when we are online. In class I found I was focusing on how I was breathing and I guess controlling my breathing. But we also did everything a bit  slower than normally. Due to this I was also a bit more focused on when I was rotating on punches and other techniques. Switching from online to back in class is sort of weird to get used to just for not being able to do certain things. But it was nice to be back in class, on the mats. 

    I am told often that if I keep doing something it will eventually get easier and easier. I'm getting told this constantly about blogging because blogging has been quite hard for me to sort of start writing or to think of what to write. But this also goes to a lot of different things like working out, or just lots of things in general. For working out the more you do it the easier it gets because you will start to get more muscles and get strong over time. I guess for blogging it will eventually get easier because I will get more comfortable(or at least hopefully).