Summers around here is an interesting time for martial arts. If you happen to be in the Littleton or Cherry Creek school districts you get the summer off. If you live in Douglas County, it could be traditional and you get the summer off or maybe it is a track system and you don't get as much time off. Either way the summer is a great time to truly dial in on your martial arts training. You don't have the pressures of the school year and all the other activities going on, so it is a great time to focus on your martial arts training.
What about vacations. Even if you are on vacation you still want to get some exercise. Get up in the morning and run through your forms, or shadow box/spar, etc. If you are at a beach, do this in the water for great resistance training. If you are in the mountains, do this on the rocks or what ever the landscape is for great balance and focus training.
Quite often people take time off in the summer and don't make it back because they feel like they are "behind". It is never a race and you are not behind. You move at your pace. It doesn't matter if the others you knew in class have advanced to the next rank. You just need to go at your speed.
So, use the summer to dial into your martial arts training without all the other pressures of school and life that you have at other times.
Stan Shields
4th Degree Black Belt
www.kicks4all.com
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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