Kung Fu and Parkour

Yesterday, there was a Binh Dinh session as per usual. I ran through the two forms a few times, and then we actually got into practical fighting stuff, which is pretty interesting. I think my dad's getting a little old for it, though, because he needed to stop pretty early on. Shame. All the more reason to be doing this now rather than later.

As far as Parkour goes, we did some timed runs as the theme. I think the times are very telling, actually. The first time I got was slower than everyone else's.. Aside form slipping up three times and two people doing less on the last leg of the run, I chalk it up to being clumsy with my ground-based movement.. However, on the last run, which involved a lot of climbing, I basically crushed everyone else's time (not to be arrogant OR competitive, just stating).. This tells me that my strength training has paid off.. But I'm not actually faster than they are, I'm just better at climbing. Overall, this tells me that I need to be training more dynamic movements and training more technique.. or at least getting more out of my technical training than I currently am. Maybe it's because I don't have anyone here who's going to be really pushing me (whereas when Knox, Nick, or Leon are around, I always get noticeably better).. But yes, more dynamic training. I need to set Friday up to be a full-on DE day regularly.. Soon, just not this week because of Blacksburg.