Hey you guys....

 Well well well! How’s things today? I gotta apologize for the late blog, and so here it shall appear!! Let there be blogs...and such it happens! 

I continued work on my form this past week. Got some good solid reps in. Feeling better. Just gotta keep working on the stamina. Riding the bike and simply doing my push ups and sit ups. Nothing fancy. I, well, don’t have a lot to report. It’s was just one of those weeks. Not much happened, but, I got a fair bit accomplished! I did put in a new floor in the living room and hall way!! Bam!! Fantastic!! Finished with two hours before I had dr appointments! 

   And such, now, with these small surgeries I have just had, I really have to slow down. I made a joke to the dr, seeing if he’d be interested in restitching me on a daily basis, because sitting still isn’t what I do! Hahaha! He smiled and chuckled, sure, I could use the practice he says!! Hahaha. Oh boy, do me up like a zipper Doc!! Hahaha. Oh it was a good day. I did find out though, about myself that, I am a quiet fella when anticipating, but when I’m nervous I’m a chatterbox! Just on and on and on. It was a very conscience decision to try to be quiet, but, it didn’t work out that well! I also found out my dr is a wrestling fan too!! I’m like you're an even better dr now!! I’m always coming here! Good times! 

For the rest of today, honestly I’m going to watch some horror flicks and Bret Hart matches. I finally found a copy of the rob zombie version of Halloween and I’m super excited to watch it again! I absolutely love rob zombies re-make of this movie. He nails it. He gets right into micheal’s head, gives the viewer a glimpse of that mans mind and that’s what is so scary about that movie. I mean, he turned to oh of killers into even more of a monster! I’ll drink that up. John Carpenter did a fantastic reboot when he did the 30year anniversary of Halloween. All three I think are fantastic! So, what’s you’re favourite scary type of movie? Doesn’t have to be as intense! Maybe Scooby-Doo does Halloween is good! Maybe that’s intense enough for you and that’s super cool! I just wanna hear about it, please. 

If I could I’d put one of those gifs Shia LaBeouf screaming do it! Just pretend that is here! Okay!!

Any font, I have the next weekish to get all healed up and then I can get back into training like I desire! Patience though. Patience. This is a good lesson in slowing down and paying attention to my body. I’m getting older like all of us and I don’t recover from broken hands in a few days anymore, in fact those old breaks really bother me today. And right around this temp the body goes into pain mode and the next few months, until spring comes back, I’ll live with a constant uncomfortable lingering pain in my body! That’s okay, this is why I’ve been spending so much time at the doctors lately. Help with the unneeded pain! I want to be healthy, and my own little desire to self implode is slowly going away. I kind of actually want to be apart of my kids adult lives. I really want to see retirement. Truly I do! Never cared for it before, but then alas, I was challenged to look at things with more gratitude! Really stop and honestly look! Fine I will. Huh? This is kinda really cool! This..is...interesting to say the least. I don’t really have words to explain my thoughts. Maybe later.  

Honestly, I’m not just faking it until I make it. I am really coming back outta this depression on fire and I’m feeling good about me. These surgeries, really kinda kick started my self esteem. I don’t have this “stuff and thoughts” lingering in the back of my mind and if I don’t hear from my dr I the next few weeks, I am all good!! Only a few more weeks of uneasiness. Doctor is confident all is well, everything looks “okay”, just gotta be patient for results! Hahaaaaaa

My smoking date is coming up fast and furious and I’m scared as hell. I got this. I have an awesome support network, I have Kung fu and I have the desire to stop. The drugs I’ve stopped doing, the booze I’ve stayed away from, the nasty habits I’ve broke. The results are already coming in from slowing down. My strength feels great! Easily winded still, but that will come with time. Hard to do anything when you can’t breath...40 some more hours of this. I have to stick to the plan no matter my weakest moment. I must or I will not see retirement. It’s in stone, the words have been spoken, the orders are being filled it’s time to let my inner lights shine brightly and realize this potential. It’s time  

 Teammates, friends, children of all ages. The last of it shall soon be over. Freedom from the past, and a complete new chapter in my life. That last little fibre from the past is soon to be cut. Hold on tight and tuck your chins! This is gonna be fantastic! 

Well, I’m in pain enough to go lay down and watch some sweet stuff. 

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan 

Halloween

 Hey hey hey! It’s Sunday funday!! Boy, I had a good week. A real good week. Started kinda blah and slow, but, I got a text outta the blue out from a solid cat that always hangs out in my corner! Just wanting to see how I am! Huh?!? That’s cool. I have had some health issues if you may. Found out it was nothing serious, but, I was worried, thankfully it’s a whole bunch of nothing to be worried about! Whew!!!

This past little bit has been a serious test. A test in a just about every aspect of my life. From being tested with kids, to family to random strangers. I do believe I’ve done fairly well. There’s a few conversations I wish that didn’t explode in my face, but, such is life. Maybe one day, when honesty is a real thing, we can build a relationship. Living in lies and refusing to listen to the other side makes for a very trying relationship. I haven’t given up. I won’t give up! 

   One thing I want to talk about was Thursday’s class. Intention was brought up and an uneasiness of striking our training partners. The conversation got me thinking again. If I train to pull punches and to limit myself during my training, when real life happens all I’m going to have is practiced pulled punches. In my opinion, I will not have the muscle memory in a fight situation to place proper strikes and take control of a situation. When we train with our partners, no no we don’t blast and injure each other. No we don’t train to see who is better. We train with respect! We train to learn. I don’t want to hurt you, but I do want to know this technique! Therefore a sense of realism has to come out. So, I feel anyhow, when a level of comfort is achieved by both training partners, intensity with control has to go up. Otherwise, you’re left training at half speed and realistically you will only ever achieve maybe half of your complete awesomeness. As we master these techniques we should be able to step up intensity with little to no fear of hurting our training partner. That’s why we train the same moves over and over. 

 I was worried about flow in some of my techniques. Especially the knife hand sweep, followed by the punch and dragon whip kick! It just kinda felt weird. I mean, I feel like the body is moving off on an angle in the form and not straight forward. So, after asking for help, things look decent, everything looks okay, just keep practicing. So, I have and, I found, maybe I’m off, but, I found that the sweeping knife hand and following punch almost have flow off of centrelines! So, sure I’m striking an opponent in front of me, but, the flow of that knife hand forces myself and my opponent off to one side. That punch simply follows suit in your direction! I wanted to know more, to the heavy bag. After some time of knife hand punch, knife hand punch, I believe I found that meaning. 

    Let’s looks at force vectors and intention for a second. Stay with me!! Let’s put realism here. You want my stuff! I warn you no too, but, You have your guards up approaching me to take my stuff. Sink in and send that knife hand out there. Whatever direction I take your guards with that opening knife hand IS the direction my vector is going. Your vector is coming straight at me. Simple physics states, two colliding vectors will combine into one and send both energies into a new direction, in our case off on an angle, towards and away from me. The dragons whip, follows our center. It chases that punch. It goes where our shoulders and hips point. SO, therefore, if I apply this technique properly, if taken in the rotation of the earth versus the moon and compared that to the sun and crushed the math on the meteor coming towards us, I have to be moving or attacking on a angle, otherwise I choke my own techniques off and my training is for nothing. 

Well, I sure hope that makes sense! It made mud clear for me!

   “Kung fu gives my punches a purpose. In order to maintain my purpose, I have to learn my intentions behind that punch. Leaning about my intentions teaches me about my motives for throwing that punch. My motives teaches me who I am for the day!” 

I do have a question for the team! It’s a very very serious question! Take it serious or Mr.Thursday Night might have to come out and see ya... HALLOWEEN!!!! 

   What are your plans? What is your family doing? I have been celebrating Halloween for a few weeks now! The house isn’t decked out or anything yet! I’m just going out dressed as my favourite. The OG of thrilling and killing, the true Boogeyman, the Silent Stabber Mr.Halloween himself the one the only Mr.Mike Myers! 

   Yes I have been going out dressed as Mike Myers! Hey, dogs gotta get walked and played with! Seriously, once august ends it’s Halloween season. If we can have six months of Xmas, we can have two months of Halloween. Haha. But the looks and reactions I’ve gotten!! Just fantastic. I legit had this old boy pull his car over on Main Street just to give me dirty looks!! Haha. Most people laugh and wave after crossing the street...I just do the slow turn and stare!! I’ll stand in my front yard wearing my mask staring at traffic coming into town...people slow down alright! Get the wave or honk and I stare!! Hahahaha. Oh goodness I love having fun. I told you, I’m different. Oh hahah. Check this out. I have a spot for the mask in the kitchen, so when it’s dark outside and you come into the kitchen, the reflection of Myers is in the window looking down at you...scares the kids every time!!!! Hahaha. Oh I’m going to pay for this down the line!!!! I have a plan for my kids. I got this fog machine and strobe light that my boys like setting up in the back yard okay! And the trampoline is set up in the back corner of the yard...it’s dark no light behind the trampoline. I have all black gear. 

I train for these moments in life.......

Hahahaha!!! 

Okay have a great day everyone! I’ll see you soon

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan

Today today

 Well happy Monday morning!! How’s things today everyone? My week has been interesting I suppose. Sick kids and staying home. The youngest came down with a cold early in the week and the oldest boy got sick a few days later. So, I pulled the teacher dad routine and spent my days trying to teach my boys!! Haha. What a week that was! Good thing I’m actually prettty smart and I can keep up to grade 4 & 7 school work!! Yeah for me!! 

I kept going on forms and such, but I didn’t have a lot of gas this week! I got sick too and just drained the energy from me. Well, that and trying to be a teacher! Not as bad as it sounds, but, it’s definatly not my cup of tea! But, hey, I showed the boys different ways to accomplish math! We worked hard on sentences and then I started giving a bit of a history lesson in wrestling! Good old social studies! Who can tell me who the first Intercontinental Champion of WWE? And why did the introduction of that belt have such an everlasting effect on wrestling today? 

   Pat Patterson! 1979 the first tournament was held for the intercontinental championship. It was the first belt used for mid card wrestlers. It was important to this day because it’s the longest lasting, non-adultered belt in WWE. It’s considered prestigious because, normally, this belt is the beginning of heavyweight contender ship. It’s a trial period if you may. It’s also, where some top guys will fued, in order to bring characters back into the tv time, which eventually should lead to more tv and character development on tv. Finally it’s prestigious because, simply some of the people who have held that belt and the legacies they have left on the wrestling world! Start with the original champ Pat Patterson, one of the legit toughest and cleanest wrestlers to ever grace the Buisness, to the likes of Ricky Steamboat vs Macho Man Randy Savage! This was the fued that bumped Macho Man into main street stardom! Once Bret the Hitman Hart won the IC, within two years, he was in heavyweight contendership. Even to the match that just took place on Sunday night. AJ Styles vs Sami Zayne vs Jeff Hardy ladder match for the IC. AJ Styles is WWE main “across the world guy”! He’s wrestled with every major organization in wrestling and when you see AJ styles, it means championship style matches! Even when Styles makes mistakes or botches, it looks good! He makes wrestling look like Sifu Brinker makes Kung Fu look simple. The other two are awesome as it is, don’t get me wrong, and it was an awesome ladder match! Man, that would hurt jumping 15 Feet off of one ladder onto your opponent, whose laying on a ladder,  just to stop on concrete...I’m so envious. That’d be so much fun! It would hurt shit yeah, but once that pop hits....it’d be worth it! 

    Well, okay, than. Yes the Clash of Champions ppv just happened and I thought it was a solid show! A few wtf moments, but it’s wrestling! It’s not always supposed to make sense! Just smile and nod! 

   And as for all else, Kung fu is going well! Sticking to the basics, and just working on the forms and things I know! With this cold and such, I’m electing to just stay at home for the time being and just keep working on the basics. 

   I am putting together a plan to take my health and well-being back. My breathing and stamina really do suck, so, I’m goi g to crush this smoking thing while I’m chilling at home! Ohh gawd!! I’m already anxious and sweaty and trying to trip myself up! My quit date is approaching fast and I have slowed down on the intake of poison, now, I just have to believe I can live without a cigarette! I see everyone not smoking, so, I’d like to not smoke too. Besides at $15 a day, man does that get old fast!!! 

So, here’s to a week of meltdowns and confusion!! I watched one of my best buddies just quit, with some help and a lot of will power! And I want to too. I’m kinda sick of stinking and not breathing and looking like a leather purse and feeling like crap! I’ve smoked since I was like 10. I took it up full time around 12/13. Peer pressure? Being a dumb kid, not respecting myself, not giving myself a chance to succeed? I don’t know why I started smoking! But, I did, and here I am, looking at these sticks of death trying so hard to figure out why I enjoy them? 

Anyhow, if you can figure the logic behind smoking, let me know! And if not, well, I’ll talk you soon any which way!! Have a great week team

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan

Well....

 Yeah hey there! How y’all doing in this fine Sunday morning? Well I’m okay I do suppose. Not super great but not in the dumps. I’m flatlined!! Which is actually an amazing finisher! The Flatliner. Mil Muertes aka Ricky Banderas has a beautiful flatliner!!  If I had a wrestling promotion, I’d straight up have Ricky as my top guy!! Yeah and he’d fued with the likes of bray Wyatt, ricochet, Pentagon Jr and a few guys from NJPW. I honestly can’t spell their names.....but they are great! Japanese pro wrestling is much harder hitting and more of a shoot match. And a shoot match is basically a full on fight! Not near as many pulled moves!! You can totally hear the difference!! Ha whoa sidetracked  

You know I learnt a bit about myself last week. A lot of what I learnt is not new to me, just lots of reminders. Little resets. Much needed! I did get caught up in making that money and damn I was making money.... Our minds are such a powerful entity and if given room to grow, oh the wonders we can wonder.  If given a dark room oh the things that can fester. It’s truly amazing. I mean either way you choose to go, obviously there’s reprocusions. Consequences that can lead us to glory or to gloom. 

I let my mind go to the darkness. It was a distinct choice. I remember the talk I had...okay, just a few days okay!! I like the punishment I guess? I don’t know! It’s a bad habit to keep, but, for me anyhow, It’s a useful tool when used properly. I feel anyhow! I used to love the insanity of everything and as I’ve grown up, I have tried to walk away from insane thoughts and people. These weeks were hard because, I’ve had to make real tough decisions about moving forward in life and who gets to ride with me from hence forward! 

I’ve grown tiresome of being a scapegoat for certain people in my circle, and now, even after talks, they just will never understand until they are willing to take honest looks at themselves. I’m all done caring, all done. Time to move on with my life. Something I should have done years and years ago, but, I kept them around because family...

Well, onto new things and places in life. This is gonna be great. I am very excited to move forward with out people holding me back. I’ve got my plan on paper, I have a great mental attitude about moving forward with Kung fu. And I’m going to continue kicking the crap outta life! Life got me a few weeks ago, I’m rebounding and coming back with fists flying man! I’m not going to give up and roll over. Not today and not tomorrow! 

Kung fu, is the best release I have. I have some solid teammates, I have some amazing teachers and have managed to continue to build up an awesome friendship that sprouted outta the IHC. One of my strongest role models has come from Kung fu. Some of my favourite people I’ve met in class. My biggest supports are on this school. Yo, I honestly have a tattoo based around silent river Kung fu. I straight up asked permission to include srkf on my piece!! Forever implanted on my being. Yeah, like a tag! Sure whatever. It’s a constant reminder of where my strength comes from. Of where my mind belongs. The strongest  part of my spirit comes from silent river. Honestly, we have techniques that literally rip shoulders apart, but we don’t. That’s strength. The ability to not hurt, even though you can! 

I don’t want to jump on my own band wagon to early and say how amazing I’m doing, cause that’s silly. I need more action. More results. I have a mission, I have a game plan and I have some awesome teachers. It’s time to truly utilize my time. 

I want to be blogging about my physical breakthroughs more so obviously, I need to train more and more. This routine is going to go well for me! Just gotta stick to the plan. Push ups and sit ups in the am, kids to school, prep supper, get chores done, lunch, train and family time afterwards. It would be silly if I can not get a few hours of training in a day again! What also am I going to do? Smash darts? Done enough of that! 

I just want to say, I hope this wasn’t too aggressive. I just kinda wanted to put it all out there and just have it out of my mind. I’m an aggressive fella to begin with and then I get wound up and it’s like a tornado some days! Ha. Seriously though, again the power of blogging and accountability! 

Okay teammates! I think that’s all the rambeling I have for now. Hopefully it’s coherent and understandable! 

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan

Knees, elbows and fists

 Hello there! How are ya? I’m better! Really I am. Got things sorted out. I am fairly straightforward now, again. Ahh life’s curveballs and groin shots! Learning lessons. I am over this work situation. Forget them! 

Any which way, back to getting that plan together. Honestly I knew I wasn’t going to stick to anything until I got closure from that last spot. So here we are. This past weekend I worked hard a changing my attitude and I focused just how fortunate I am. A few of my friends reached out and did the old check up. Since I’ve been gone I’ve had numerous reach outs from old friends. Like some of the boys from back when! That’s cool. Every one is all familied up and such. It’s nice to see. Didn’t think we all where gonna make it!! Haha! 

King fu wise, I moved forward in one aspect, and seriously just hit the heavy bag. I did not do forms. Not hand nor weapon. I truly just smashed the bag. The only thing I worried about was stance and working my quadrants. Trying to get that snap all lined up! Just break faces! I wanted raw power. Let me see what’s hiding in here? Knees, elbows and fists oh my! How I missed the heavy! I didn’t have the luxury of a heavy bag in gp, so I wanted to put a literal hole in that heavy bag. Believe me I tried. Man, and I threw Twiztid on bleeding ears loud and zoned in! Haha. It wasn’t a flurry of flailing. No no, it was and is a calculated de-construction. I ran scenarios in my mind and played with techniques. Times like these I wish I had like a robot that you could press a button and you got a fight partner!! How cool would that be?!? I’ll take two please!! 

And then, well...that’s about it....see ya later folks

Thanks for your time!

Me.Duncan

Parental advisory....seriously...more of a pg13ish I rewrote this like too many times so this is it.

 Hi. Seriously, I’m pretty off. I’m not really all here right now. I’ll get there. I find blogging is a great place to write things out. I find if I’m asking the write questions and listen to me words, I’ll find hints and such about what’s next. You know what I mean? Just kinda write and hopefully some semblance of coherent language comes out? I really don’t know what to write. I’m scattered. Just had the old L-Bomb dropped on me. Saturday morning having coffee with my kids, “Oh quite please, I gotta take this! Oh hey boss! This is odd what’s up? I’m laid off? oh cool, thanks. Oh yah I’ll be sure to drop off your gas card...

 Upstairs I’m pretty mad. Straight up pissed. But, this is the calmest I’ve been since sat morning. So, As, I’ve been documenting and sharing with everyone, I’ve been working outta town minimum 24-4. Last shift was 31 days on. I’ve sacraficed a lot to be where I was with my company. I was the go to guy. I was running equipment and cleaning the site. I was jumping and helping picking rocks load me up, let’s do this boys. Rocks flying man! I earned the respect of my peers and the respect of most my bosses. I’ve missed every Kung fu engagement and a fair number of online classes, so I could work....I’ve watched my kids frustrations grow through a computer screen because I can’t give his hug. I’ve sacrificed and given up a lot. Too much it seams. God dammit I got into a full on yelling match with my beautiful wife about working for this outfit and I still show up. “It’s gonna work out baby. I promise. Please, this will be good. I can feel it in my bones. I’m gonna bring the ironworker to a pipeline and blow their minds”....fudge sakes. I honestly thought with everything I had given and the A+’s I get at work for working like a fun demon, I was gold. Straight up, I’ve had inspectors write up reports and send them to my office on me, for the work I do. Well, as I’ve been told. I have had the head inspector ask me, how’s your back?  Youre carrying the crew on this project...the HEAD inspector. Nine times outta ten they don’t give a hoot about you, because you don’t matter. Like at all. 

 Everything was good, until some office politics. Stuff I had nothing to do with. A lot of really not cool stuff. Stuff in an office I’m 5hours away from and have never had business in. But, my name came up and with no opportunity to say anything about anything, I’m down the road. Get out! Just leave.....cool thanks. Yes I thanked my old boss for at least calling. I mean I was standing and bullshitting with you on Thursday afternoon. The week prior I’m, specifically told not too worry. I’ll keep you busy Willy! Yeah no worries?!? Then too have the gumption to call me on my days off, because I don’t give enough already, and lay me off....over the phone? Punk me like that?!? That one hurt. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been laid off lots, lay off is time off! I used to look forward to layoffs!! Layoffs meant job was done unless the bosses liked you! But I have always been looked in the eye and let go. Over the phone...bust your.....with my.....and then I’ll .....and place things......friend! Muhahaha  fill in the blanks, ahaha at your own risk. 

   That’s just fun fine I said to myself. I’ll show them. But, a few hours later, I was offered an opportunity in a different kinda field. And good honest work none the less. Just a few hours later! Here maybe try this! So, it’s on the table and that offer was a great pick me up! I’m very grateful but going to hold on right now. I’m going to take a week or so and just kinda hang out. Get my mind back. Re focus and blast through new doors. Get caught up at home. Actually be dad! I do know this, yeah, I’m disappointed about work, something else will happen for me. There’s a lot happening in my field, so, I just gotta look around. 

  So, that’s kinda that. Something else will work out, it always does. Sometimes quickly sometimes slowly, it will always work out. Anyhow, I’m gonna go finish cleaning out my apartment, hopefully that doesn’t catch on fire or some shit, it’d be my luck lately! Ha. Laws of attractions, my arse. Forget the pandemic, this was the worst summer of my life. This was not the outcome I was looking and hoping for! I lost. Okay I’ll tap out today. But tomorrow, you’d best look out. I’m not hiding. I’m hitting this like a bull on a clown. Sure, I’m knocked down and hurting and pissed, doesn’t mean I’m out. It doesn’t mean, it’s over. This is journeyman stuff. It’s mind twists like this and challenges like this that I eat for breakfast. I trudge the path for my happy destiny, because no one else will and I love it because no one else can. This is nothing more than fuel for me to use. Absoluelty, I’m on the sidelines licking my wounds and kicking water bottles, you bet. But, all these people really did was piss me off. Determined? Sure and whatever other word used to describe that. For lack of better terms, I’ll show them, every single one of them. I’m not done and I will succeed. 

I know what I’m capable of when I’m like this. I know how focused I can get. This is good. I know where I can go. I know just what I’m capable of, if I turn this mental train wreck around and just start breathing again. It’s a wonderful place, with continued success, just different victories. Take the step...

 No bad days, just bad moments.

I’m here on my patio; writing my blog

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan 

More patience.

 Okay hi there! What’s going on here? Well, this was a great week for me. Work wise, I had a good week. I’ve been bugging my foreman to jump in a hoe and mover dirt around, if it’s possible, well, one our operators has left the job and so I was able to jump in for a few hours! Bam! So, this is what I did. Gave the machine a quick look over, jumped in, fire it up and read the controls, took a few moments and got fami,air with the controls before we even rolled an inch. Oh, running diggers is just like playing video games! Running equipment! It’s all in the touch. Fill bucket with dirt, lift up put dirt over there! Repeat! Only a few bangs and shaking of equipment!! Oh snap, don’t do that calm down, let go of the levers for a breath, try again. I honestly got compliments for the decent beginner job I did! So, no problem, just need more practice. 

Speaking of practice, man I completely forgot the last few moves of Da Mu Hsing. Nailing the movements at the apartment, and then forget it all in front of the camera! Good gracious, I was excited to show everyone too, been working hard on it! Haha ahhh, then I forgot the techniques! Then, I messed up the bow out, and I’m like oh my god, what a train wreck! Yup, and like a minute later, I remembered what I was supposed to do.....Ahh well, I’ve stumbled before. It was the internet lag....yeah! The internet! Yeah, it was just time lapses, or whatever! Any how, I gotta get crushing more reps, what I have been doing of slower methodical forms, I want to amp up the flow into speed. So, like I say, I'm use to stopping and checking stances, I have to keep pushing forward with flow. But, at what cost? Stance? Intention? No, I need those. I want to start going for speed, but nit if it’s gonna cost me stance and grounding. Maybe, I could just be patient and keep going as to what is working so well, you know, basics and proper Kung fu. So, I gotta slow down and just stay steady with flow and stance. Everything else will happen when it’s supposed to! 

My combinations, feel not bad. There’s a few I spent a lot of time with. Simpler techniques. 3-4 moves in there. Running through the older ciriculum, and now even more of the sweeping knife block and the punch. It’s been in rotation since I’ve first seen it months ago, but i can step it up! No sweat! I feel I’m doing it right, I feel it’s doing well. I’m getting the extension and snap Sifu was asking for. Making sure not to lean over, just into the punch. Probably one of my more favorite techniques have always been out of horse stance. Seriously, that side heel thrust kick screams out of a horse stance, so simply falls into a backfist, spinning back kick then whamo, into a fighting stance squared backup, ready to rock. It’s even better when you make sound effects when you train....I’m not sure why you don’t? I always loved that combo. I get that a horse stance you “loose” some of your weapons, but, you gain “strength” in others, opening and closing the gap is fast I find in the horsestance. Mind you I have a large wing span, so that always helps, but still. 

So, I mean, I’m on day 25, worked 20, only 4 more to go! I’m getting a little stir crazy, going to have an insanely busy few days off and then back up here. That’s okay, supposed to be a quieter fall. Yeah, we will see about that! I doubt it. I’d like to just sleep the next few days until I can go home, but, alas, what I will do is keep getting up, and I’ll keep going! Besides, I’d miss out on Kung fu, if I was sleeping! That’s not good. Ha. Okay, I know I’m rambling, I’ll let ya go!

Thanks for your time

Mr.Duncan