Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Evaluation on love
Ever since the incident with her, I got a lot more insights on love and life. In the past, I used to think that love is the purpose of life and believed it. Me and her were used to be like a couple, but now is a brother and sister. After that incident, I think that I should devote myself in martial arts and work. Build up port folio and skills on film making, increase my martial arts skills, now that is the sole purpose of my life. I hope I can find the love of my life, but who knows when would that be, I hoped that time will come, but I doubt that I will have a gf even in my 30s. For now, what I can do now is wait.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Taekwondo grading, final one to black belt.
Yesterday was my final grading, once I passed that grading, I will get my black belt. Wow, looking back at the time, it has been 2 and a half years since I first entered my taekwondo clun, time sure flies. So when I go there and wait for my row to start the grading, I feel like I am going to take O level again. I was so nervous about the grading, there are 3 graders sitting in front of you and see you doing your pattern(套路 in wushu and kata in karate) and 3 rounds of sparring. The sparring I'm not afraid, in fact, I looked forward to it. It is the pattern that I am nervous, scared I will do good in it. Thank goodness it was pretty ok. Then here comes the sparring, everyone will spar with 3 different person. I didn't spar for don't know how long already, but I sure don't get nervous over this matter.
My first opponent is a guy in his 30s, pretty built. I was wondering whether I can take him on or not earlier in the day. But here he did something that I wasn't expecting it. You know the bruce lee shout "wata!!!"? That's what he shout when the examiner shout junbi(ready in korean, sounds pretty similar to Japanese). I was like "huh?", but soon I also get into my en garde position. To my surprise, his kicks was like slow motion to me. To other people in the eye, it might be pretty fast, but I see it as slow motion. He fight 100%(I guess, based on his aggressiveness), but the strength isn't there and definitely can't cath with my speed. I basically dodged and blocked all his kicks, every single one. I land a couple of kicks on him, but the most devastating will be the reverse kick in the head. Head! God, we are not supposed to aim at the head level, let alone I hit him in the head. Thank goodness I didn't use too much strength in the kick, just plain skill, or else it will be a serious case. One minute passed, we changed opponent, this time is was a smaller built guy. His kick are pretty swift, but was still a slow motion to me. I blocked and dodged all his kicks again, then I used a jumping side kick, got him on the ground. I at first want to link up to a jumping back thrust, but he was already lying on the ground, too bad. 1 min over, change opponent again, this time is a tall guy. I already wasted too many energy on the previous 2 fights, I focus more on the countering this time. Which means, I block one time, hit at the same time. I got this guy in the head again, damn. I do a double front kick using the same leg, one at the lower part of the waist and the other one in the head. I was like shit, another time? Good thing it is not hard, or else sure got problem. Finally the ring rang and that is the end of my sparring and yesterday's grading. Something happened at this moment, very shocking and surprising. Everyone looked at me and start clapping. I mean the entire stadium with the people taking the grading as well. I was happy in the heart, but too tired to express on my face or movement.
There are few things in common during the sparring.
1) I dodged the kicks by jumping:
A lot of the times, I dodge the kicks by jumping/hopping away from the opponent and cause them to miss the target, which is me. Also one thing, I think I jumped a lot higher and further, may be the training in wushu paid off. Thanks coach.
2) I blocked the kicks if I can't dodge it:
I blocked all the kicks, only if I can't dodge it or I need to do a counter. All the blocks worked and all the kicks are blocked down.
3) All the kicks are like slow motion to me:
It's either me being too observant and fast or they are just really slow. I can read the muscle movement of the kicks. I got once I was doing a 360 jumping front kick, I saw the leg of the opponent start to move, I was thinking "damn, his leg is going to come up, am I quick enough to dodge it?" All these happened in the split second when I was in the air. If it is me being too fast, that still is the result of the wushu training, thanks coach.
4) I was real calm when I fight:
For real, I was so calm and confident that I walked towards the opponent without my guarding position. Because I can blocked the moment before the leg hit me. How I walk? Those who watched kamen rider, especially kabuto will know how stylish and calm kabuto fight. He just simply walked to the opponent and then attack and that is what I did.
I felt real good with the clap, make me think that I fought real well. In short, the entire sparring, I was a total ownage machine. No one touched me, in the sense that kicked me. I felt so good after sparring, I just love it. Now I just have to wait for the result of the grading.
My first opponent is a guy in his 30s, pretty built. I was wondering whether I can take him on or not earlier in the day. But here he did something that I wasn't expecting it. You know the bruce lee shout "wata!!!"? That's what he shout when the examiner shout junbi(ready in korean, sounds pretty similar to Japanese). I was like "huh?", but soon I also get into my en garde position. To my surprise, his kicks was like slow motion to me. To other people in the eye, it might be pretty fast, but I see it as slow motion. He fight 100%(I guess, based on his aggressiveness), but the strength isn't there and definitely can't cath with my speed. I basically dodged and blocked all his kicks, every single one. I land a couple of kicks on him, but the most devastating will be the reverse kick in the head. Head! God, we are not supposed to aim at the head level, let alone I hit him in the head. Thank goodness I didn't use too much strength in the kick, just plain skill, or else it will be a serious case. One minute passed, we changed opponent, this time is was a smaller built guy. His kick are pretty swift, but was still a slow motion to me. I blocked and dodged all his kicks again, then I used a jumping side kick, got him on the ground. I at first want to link up to a jumping back thrust, but he was already lying on the ground, too bad. 1 min over, change opponent again, this time is a tall guy. I already wasted too many energy on the previous 2 fights, I focus more on the countering this time. Which means, I block one time, hit at the same time. I got this guy in the head again, damn. I do a double front kick using the same leg, one at the lower part of the waist and the other one in the head. I was like shit, another time? Good thing it is not hard, or else sure got problem. Finally the ring rang and that is the end of my sparring and yesterday's grading. Something happened at this moment, very shocking and surprising. Everyone looked at me and start clapping. I mean the entire stadium with the people taking the grading as well. I was happy in the heart, but too tired to express on my face or movement.
There are few things in common during the sparring.
1) I dodged the kicks by jumping:
A lot of the times, I dodge the kicks by jumping/hopping away from the opponent and cause them to miss the target, which is me. Also one thing, I think I jumped a lot higher and further, may be the training in wushu paid off. Thanks coach.
2) I blocked the kicks if I can't dodge it:
I blocked all the kicks, only if I can't dodge it or I need to do a counter. All the blocks worked and all the kicks are blocked down.
3) All the kicks are like slow motion to me:
It's either me being too observant and fast or they are just really slow. I can read the muscle movement of the kicks. I got once I was doing a 360 jumping front kick, I saw the leg of the opponent start to move, I was thinking "damn, his leg is going to come up, am I quick enough to dodge it?" All these happened in the split second when I was in the air. If it is me being too fast, that still is the result of the wushu training, thanks coach.
4) I was real calm when I fight:
For real, I was so calm and confident that I walked towards the opponent without my guarding position. Because I can blocked the moment before the leg hit me. How I walk? Those who watched kamen rider, especially kabuto will know how stylish and calm kabuto fight. He just simply walked to the opponent and then attack and that is what I did.
I felt real good with the clap, make me think that I fought real well. In short, the entire sparring, I was a total ownage machine. No one touched me, in the sense that kicked me. I felt so good after sparring, I just love it. Now I just have to wait for the result of the grading.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Tired
Today, I sort of like having a mood swing. I got angry on everything for no reason. For the entire day, I was like real pissed off. Then during the 6P, surprisingly, I was so sleepy and tired that I fell asleep while faci standing beside me. It is real surprising, because I was always the most active person in the Digital video and audio module, this week I got so tired. It is because of the FYP, I feel like a few days never sleep and was totally shag. Despite all the hard work and effort, faci said that he didn't see the effort in us. I was like "did you see my fucking eye bag and dark eye ring? Did you see that I dropped a lot of hair ever since the starting of the FYP?" Add on to that, one of my team mates just keep disappearing, add my workload to myself, I was so tired of all these. Hopefully the next FYP will be the best of my work.
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