Tales of Training. Daily Training. So fun.

No new updates lately because I’ve just been training… but I guess that’s worth blogging about.

Not too long after Elivers birthday, I flew up north. I’ve been in nor cal ever since. Training started off slow, but now I am training pretty intensely up here. It’s nice to be at home and not have to worry about finding my next meal (because I am at home and my mom is cooking for me! ftw!). Also I am able to practice on “official” green wushu carpet.

All those good aspects aside, I’ve come to realize I still end up training by myself wherever I go. The only place I’m able to train at with a good atmosphere and high level training teammates is with Tiff, Bryan, Stephanie, Kelly in Fremont… but then its hella far and not on regulation wushu carpet. I guess this is really as good as it gets in the US. I guess its unfair that I compare training situations in the US to China training conditions where you wake up and WALK to the training hall, you get meals prepared for you at the dining halls, you train with the best in the world, and you get coaches pushing you with detailed instructions on the latest wushu rules and techniques.

I started off this week doing random sections. Few days back, I went to Cao Yue’s grand opening demo for his new school “Silicon Valley Wushu.” He had a short class after and we played soccer then did a ton of basics, which is great and all but not great for me because I was so sore it was hard to practice what I needed to practice for competition. Took me about 2 days just to be able to safely btwist. Then  2 days ago I did my cq and ss full forms. Yesterday I did spear and ss full forms for my second practice. Hopefully I’ll do one full form today and then rest Fri and Sunday.

As for non wushu related stuff, I havent done much… I hung out with Eric and Alvin in downtown sj on the weekend; I kicked it at Dave and Busters with Eric and Hue; and I had some boba with Bryan and Tiff a few times after practice.

I’ve dedicated about 12 years to wushu, I guess I can do 1 more month of hardcore training.