Month: August 2011

Mike Gittleson

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Most of our friends are already here, tonight we will meet down town Stockholm and tomorrow will be an early beginning to a fantastic weekend in Nynäshamn.

We really appreciate that Mike agreed to be here as our friend and JKD brother. Micke and I are proud to have been able to arrange this and we hope everyone will be happy with the results

This is an opportunity you don´t want to miss and all of us that will be participating have already understood that !

Mike Gittleson´s Seminar in Sweden  will for sure be a success,  this is the continuity of  Ted´s teachings and as Micke wrote on FB today, we will all do what we can to make him proud.

Participants :

From Sweden, Mikael Egidéus, Gina Guillonot, Markus Stawbom, Adam Jarosz, N´Guessan B. Wilfried, Remy Ng, Okan Coskun Akdag.

From Norway: Torbjörn Dunderholm , Henrik Wiksaas, Caroline Hederlid , Håkon Didriksen, Oyvind J. Mustaparta.

From Spain, Jari Nyman

From Polen, Michal Czapla

Hosted and organized By JKD Stockholm, Micke and Gina

Instructor Mike Gittleson , JKD Colorado

Learning

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That is for sure, being injured is no funny stuff, whenever and however it happens. The real fighter spirit is getting on your feet again and not giving up. I have been really mad and sad and cannot really get over it but  this shows only one thing, how important training is to me.

I cannot let this destroy me, I will have to start dealing with it in another way, finding how I can make it better and train anyway.

Sure I have trained anyway but I cannot train like normal with my arm and after that the pain is worse, but as we know,  no one  is more stubborn than the french frog!

Stupid ?

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” The Stupid never forgive or forget, the naive  forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget”

I like this quote  but  … hm how do I get from Stupid to Wise ?  I pass on the naive because this never happens.

Ok seriously I m kind of wise most of the time , but not right now .

My injury to the elbow is not getting better as I hoped, this will definetely interfere with my performance at the seminar, so right now I am not only stupid,  I am really P..ssed.

JKD or else ?

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I think I have explained numerous times why I train JKD. Let´s talk now about why I train with those guys.

I said it before our team is special,  we have an outstanding instructor and everyone has respect for each other and everyone is here to train JKD .

Now, I am physically hurt alright but I am also hurt mentally, I lost some confidence and patience.

Training JKD up till now have been fun and great, I have been hurt before but it was not intended and part of the JKD sparring, so I took it.

I cannot understand why during a JKD sparring session some people feel they can just go with all they got from another style. We train JKD , the previous experience from some other style won´t make you better than any other beginner and if some people cannot understand that,  I really think they have nothing to do with us.