A milestone

 

Usually post on Sunday’s but since the past few days I’ve been deathly sick I figured tonight will do. Hate being sick but I can now recharge and pick up where I left off tomorrow morning. A bit of a milestone this past weekend with my boys turning one on Saturday – time flies fast. A lot can take place in a year, being part of this team with previous members can attest to that. What I personally have accomplished in the past year has been small in my mind but again I have to take perspective of where I’m at. I’ve accomplished things people would run screaming from – such is the life we live - a life of extraordinary made ordinary and routine. I’m proud of my personal goal of scanning all of my family photos editing, cropping, dating and labelling each one – 9820 to be precise. Two and a half years of work but these are memories we can now share with all family, forever protected and passed on. Yeah I’m a little mental when it comes to taking on challenges sometimes – my family still doesn’t comprehend what that took but it was important to me. Extraordinary made ordinary – set your goal and follow through. My boys are my greatest achievement and always will be – just have many more to create and challenge as we progress along this wild ride. Happy birthday boys!

Sifu Bryant

Silent River Kungfu

No more snow

Well with this latest dump of snow coming the past few days I have to say I’m sick of winter. We really had a short fall and it’s now been a long winter. I am just itching to get outside to do anything right about now. This is the time of year that I really can’t wait for the snow to go away and get some sun and fresh air, I feel like it’s time to stop hibernating and get moving. On Friday we had a good open training class practising and trying out different things. During our butterfly kicks and such I decided to dislocate one of my little toes – what a putz. I had so much tape on my toes afterwards to stop the bleeding I looked like I had a cast on my toes. Now it’s just a few shades of blue and purple, my first marks for the new year – love it.

Sifu Bryant

An inspirational group

It was nice to get together for our first meeting this weekend. These are the meetings at least at the beginning stages of our year that get us all in one room and talk about how we are making out – just might need a bigger room if everyone shows up at once. Of course this is a chance to remind ourselves that although we are all at different phases of our training so far we are still all working towards common goals. I was struck by some that were really struggling and were honest enough to admit it. When people struggle and stick with it I find that truly inspirational. I know sometimes we make very small advancements that can seem like we are running standing still but again be mindful you are still moving in the right direction. It was nice to get together on Saturday; you are all an inspiration to be amongst.

Sifu Bryant
SRKF

Step by step

This year I finally started to use my pedometer each day at work. I knew I put on a few paces over the course of a day but never actually measured this until now. I was actually surprised to see the miles I put on in a given day.  I actually haven’t even put in a busy walk day as of yet but am still walking between one and a half to almost three miles a day. Have to say those miles can add up in a hurry, lucky I have good shoes to wear.  I do spend most of my days walking from place to place so this will definitely help with my overall miles for the course of the year. Was nice to have our open training on Friday, I really enjoy those extra days for us and can really help maintain momentum with our forms and such.
Sifu Bryant
SRKF