I've come to refer to incidents of Muprhy's Law as 'Getting Murphed'. A lot of that has happened lately, to the point where I'm just happy my car is still running and my left eye is still in tact. Side note: the right one is too.
I haven't had much time to do anything since I've been job hunting and broke, so I probably won't a Halloween costume.
I'm really looking forward to Ubbt 7 though.
So I walked to a restaurant called Annie's today for lunch with my family; not having shaved in a few days I was rather scruffy and wearing my trench coat. This is itself is nothing of note. A middle aged man, complete with comb over, looked terrified when I walked in, and stared dumbfounded as I, rather than robbing the place, took a seat and waited for my peeps. It was comical.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
My beef with push ups
Push ups are a great exercise, however, like with most things one gets what they put in. As with most things in the martial arts, there is a proper and an improper way of doing them.
I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one who has noticed, but over the course of the ubbt, I'm been noticing push up technique going downhill. It's like people aren't caring about quality so much anymore, but quantity. Am I the only one who still think there are only black belt push ups and not push ups, nothing in between? I've even heard people tell other that bad technique is acceptable if you're doing a bunch of them. "Who can do 1000 perfect push ups?" I'll tell you who, a black belt can. Maybe not today, but a black belt will train under they can rather than make silly excuses. If you can only do one perfect push ups, then just do one. Maybe tomorrow or the day after you'll be able to do two, and then four and then ten, a hundred, and so on.
Sure, when you're pushing yourself, your technique will degrade. Right now I can't do more than 60 real push ups before my technique breaks down. However, no matter how many bad push ups I do, if someone could read my mind they'd just hear "61. 61. 61. 61. 61..." since like I said, there are black belt push ups, and not push ups, and I only count black belt push ups.
If you sit down and are doing poor push ups when the set is only 20 or 30, what does that say about your kung fu? It says you don't care. You don't want to do the push ups, you just want them done.
When told to do 20 push ups, a regular person will do his best to do as little as possible, so that he can be lazy while being able to say he did 20 push ups. A martial artist, on the other hand, will 21 or die trying. Not because he wants to show off to those next to him, or look good for his instructor, but because he has decided that he wants to do them.
I kinda wish I a microphone right now, so I could drop it Chris Rock style and storm off stage. I guess I'd need a stage too.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung fu
Stony Plain Alberta
www.silentriverkungfu.com
pseudospectacular.blogspot.com
I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one who has noticed, but over the course of the ubbt, I'm been noticing push up technique going downhill. It's like people aren't caring about quality so much anymore, but quantity. Am I the only one who still think there are only black belt push ups and not push ups, nothing in between? I've even heard people tell other that bad technique is acceptable if you're doing a bunch of them. "Who can do 1000 perfect push ups?" I'll tell you who, a black belt can. Maybe not today, but a black belt will train under they can rather than make silly excuses. If you can only do one perfect push ups, then just do one. Maybe tomorrow or the day after you'll be able to do two, and then four and then ten, a hundred, and so on.
Sure, when you're pushing yourself, your technique will degrade. Right now I can't do more than 60 real push ups before my technique breaks down. However, no matter how many bad push ups I do, if someone could read my mind they'd just hear "61. 61. 61. 61. 61..." since like I said, there are black belt push ups, and not push ups, and I only count black belt push ups.
If you sit down and are doing poor push ups when the set is only 20 or 30, what does that say about your kung fu? It says you don't care. You don't want to do the push ups, you just want them done.
When told to do 20 push ups, a regular person will do his best to do as little as possible, so that he can be lazy while being able to say he did 20 push ups. A martial artist, on the other hand, will 21 or die trying. Not because he wants to show off to those next to him, or look good for his instructor, but because he has decided that he wants to do them.
I kinda wish I a microphone right now, so I could drop it Chris Rock style and storm off stage. I guess I'd need a stage too.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung fu
Stony Plain Alberta
www.silentriverkungfu.com
pseudospectacular.blogspot.com
Monday, October 12, 2009
I has Interwebs Again!
Hurray! Although I'm sitting in a corner of my new basement surrounded by coils of wire, on the floor, I have internet access.
So, to address my blogging. My new plan is to post entries every Sunday night. Rather than doing what I have been and musing for a week about what to write and then only getting half done before I'm called away and having to delay posting sometimes by several days, I'm going to write them early and set the publishing date for the appropriate time.
Anyway, not much else to say at 3:26 am...so this'll have to do for tonight.
Yippie!
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
So, to address my blogging. My new plan is to post entries every Sunday night. Rather than doing what I have been and musing for a week about what to write and then only getting half done before I'm called away and having to delay posting sometimes by several days, I'm going to write them early and set the publishing date for the appropriate time.
Anyway, not much else to say at 3:26 am...so this'll have to do for tonight.
Yippie!
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
Saturday, October 3, 2009
I Like To Move It Move It
So, I moved into my new place. For nearly twenty years I've lived with my parents and that ends today. No big deal though, I'm only going a few miles down the road to Spruce Grove. I'll be living with 3 friends and it should be a blast. We have no internet, yet, and so for the next bit I'll have to find new and exciting places for my blogging.
I don't have anything too interesting to say, unfortunately. But I have been doing a lot of reading lately. The Seven Military Classics of ancient China is a lovely omnibus of works such as Sun-Tzu and Tai-Kungs Six Secret Teachings. Well, I guess I'll post the blogs and get back to it.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain Alberta
www.silentriverkungfu.com
I don't have anything too interesting to say, unfortunately. But I have been doing a lot of reading lately. The Seven Military Classics of ancient China is a lovely omnibus of works such as Sun-Tzu and Tai-Kungs Six Secret Teachings. Well, I guess I'll post the blogs and get back to it.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain Alberta
www.silentriverkungfu.com
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