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My own thoughts and story

Training Overwiew

Apart from Sundays which are dedicated to group training, I have one session a the gym on wednesdays, the rest of the week is mostly own training , I add some variations everyday.

Mondays : I have to say I do not train consequently every monday because most of the time my body is all broken by the sunday session. Some mondays I can´t walk or straighten my arms, first question of the day on mondays:” how is is going with the muscle pain, it hurts ? GOOD !!”  …  But I try to  do some pushups and situps anyway as well as stretching… when I can move at all … So we can leave the Mondays aside.

I don´t have a settled training plan. Thuesday Thursday and Friday are the remaining days for my own training which looks approximately like this:

Stretching, situps, pushups, fotwork, heavy bag, JKD pole, wristroller, shadow boxing, weight lifting, …stretching!

When the swedish weather allows it  some days look a bit different, and biking and running are added especially on saturdays.

There have been some times where I trained less, Sometimes I need to settle down a little bit  and then come back stronger. but at the peak of my condition I hold this schedule quite well.

Looking forward to a better weather now, when the snow disappear we will be able to train outside again… good times to come!

My story

I was born n in France , I have heard  about Bruce Lee and seen his  films for as long as I can remember. Everyone I knew was a big Bruce Lee fan and still is. At a very early age I was fascinated by the artist dreaming about being able to do that too 🙂
But I am not coming from a very rich family, and I did not have the possibility to train anything at all.
In 2002, I moved from France to Sweden In 2004, as  I was surfing on the internet looking for self- defense class,  A popup came up on the right side of the screen, I thought I saw “Jeet Kune do” and before I had the time to click on it it disappeared. Really I could not believe it, did I see right?  Never seen this in France before !  I sat there and waited until this popup came back and then YES that was it ! An add for Jun Fan JKD classes downtown Stockholm. I called right away and started training  the same week.
Right away I started to notice a change, both physically and mentaly, feeling much better about myself, finding some inner peace and a way to get all the negative energy out, in a good way.
Training JKD  is for me such an acomplishement, it brought me so many things. My family at home cannot believe it and  they still ask me if it is true that I met Ted Wong, the private student of  Bruce Lee.
From where I come from,  it is an incredible thing to achieve, and I think so too.
In 2005, I attended my first Ted Wong  seminar , this is also when I met my trainer .
I had an injury which made me stop training at the school a couple of months before and I felt I needed more intense training .
I started to train privately with Micke in June 2005, he got me to open my mind and get to another physical and mental level.
We have been training since then  and soon we were pleased to welcome Coshe and Michel as training partners, Remy joined us a bit later on. At first we trained  in Stockholm on sundays, ouside the regular trainings. But unfortunately they closed  the school and we started to train outside  nearby our homes in Sollentuna.
We are such a good and dedicated group, everybody gets along and the hard training is always a joy for all of us.
We all have a great respect for our trainer who makes the training intense and enjoyable, our motivation is always at the top.
On a personal point of view, today 2010 I can say I have never felt better about myself, the training is such a great part of my life,
I would say is number one without hesitation.