Home Training: Here are the numbers for the week.
Pushups: Goal = 1050; Actual = 985
Sit ups: Goal = 700; Actual = 700
One minute timed Agility jump: Goal = 6 times at 85 each: Actual = 5 times at 30-41 each.
Inside outside spinning cyclone kick: Goal = 350; Actual = 217
Cross stepping kicks: Goal = 280; Actual = 280
Round House Kicks: Goal = 700; Actual = 587
Spinning back kicks: Goal = 350; Actual = 200
(Total kicks: Goal = 1680; Actual = 1284)
Loa Gar: Goal = 42; Actual = 22

Some successes, and some near successes; overall a good week. I am concerned about my agility jump and had hoped to ask for a few tips on this at class but never got round to it. As it turns out, Master Brinker sent us sihings a kwoon message (subject: 'Tick Tock) asking us how our home training is going, and I responded by sending him a copy of this week's home training journal (info above is a summary of it), to critique and make suggestions for going forward. Maybe he will see my poor agility jump results and give a few pointers.

Open Training:
I filmed myself doing the inside outside spinning cyclone kick at home training and found some items to fix this way; and I also had Sifu Frietag critique this kick at open training and she provided me with a tip for fixing the thing I noticed from filming.
I had Sifu Frietag critique my Loa Gar form and pick one thing for me to fix - it turned out to be a clarification of one of the five things I had a question about. Sifu's Becket and Robertson were at open training and provided further pointers, and I got answers to the remaining 4 things I had questions about.

Sihing Class: I summarized this on kwoon talk. Of note for this blog, Master Brinker talked about aiming for being at our peak of physical fitness in about 10 weeks. I have NO IDEA how to plan this out - totally overwhelmed knowing that there must be a scientific approach to this and not knowing whether trying to read up on it will send me off on a tangent. It's tempting to get a personal trainer like Sifu Edge. For this week though, I have decided to proceed as follows:
1. Hope that Master Brinker, upon reviewing last weeks journal will provide some guidelines for the next 10 weeks
2. Planned next week to include some baseline testing; record daily, my performance for timed agility jumps, thrust punches, and sit ups. At open training record my 2 flexibility tests. Record the time on my 2k run once this week.
3. Will continue what I did last week for forms, pushups, situps and kicks as there is still some work to be done.
4. There will be a pull-back on the amount of running I do in a week because I am having some chronic joint pain which seems to be getting more aggravated over the last month, so I need to see a doctor and get it sorted out.

Black Belt Requirements:
Due April 1; Written Assignment - what is a black belt - completed my first draft. Last night I came to a decision as to one more item I want to add to this assignment and so I have two weeks to get that done.
Due at Grading: ALL requirements from Yellow to 2nd Degree Brown. I assume we have to demonstrate our proficiency and knowledge of all the combinations, techniques, self defence, power training, theory, and sparring. Taking a look at the course curriculum is incredibly overwhelming. Today, between volleyball games, I broke the curriculum down into 11 chunks for me to tackle over the next 11 weeks. Then I decided on a game plan for carrying this out because some of the stuff would be better done with a partner, some stuff requires getting answers and building study notes, other stuff requires a week of practice and then getting a sifu to critique my execution and then another week of fine tuning. And other stuff can only be done, if I know for sure I will be in town for open training. My goal for this week is to build a study sheet for the Yellow/Orange belt Theory. There are 21 things to know, and I am embarrassed about how little I can answer at this time.

Personal Black Belt Requirements: At sihing class this week, Master Brinker urged us to review our Project Based Leadership. As mentioned in an earlier blog, I will post a review at month end because, by then, the first phase of my project should have been completed.