Filming

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Yesterday I worked mostly on footwork , jumping rope first. I worked on footwork only , then added punches, kicks and shadow boxing .

After a while I went to the heavy bag to do some work on the straight lead, I used the technique Mikael showed me to get this “hand before foot” right !

I repeated more than a 100 times slowly at first and then made it look like a punch and tried it all together at the end, I have to say it will require more time, doing the technique slowly first was OK,  I filmed while I was doing it and it worked, every single time I had the hand before foot but when I do the straight lead then, it is not that obvious.

I went on with the heavy bag and trained kicks,  here too I filmed and when I looked at it,  I could see the arm was dropping so I did it again .

The hook kick felt good, the side as well but on film it was not, so I worked on this one a little bit more.

Then I did some statical training for the legs holding the side kick position up as long as possible on each side and tried to have the cleanest position possible and also trying to get it higher and higher.

Obviously there is a stretching problem here so I finished with stretching.

I was pleased with the session yesterday mostly because the filming is a really good idea, sometime you think you do it right and on film it does not look that way,  or one detail is forgotten,

this is the best way to self criticize and see the mistakes in order to fix them.

JKD SWEDEN UPDATE

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In our group, only serious and loyal people will remain, yes we have proof of that everyday… and I feel I have now the possibility to make a new list of those people.

JKD stockholm members :

Mikael Egidéus Instructor

Members : Gina , Coshe , Michel, Remy, Will, Adam, Nicklas.

Mikael invited Robin, Remy´s brother as he trained at Stefan´s school also a couple of years ago and we hope he will be able to join sometimes.

I take the opportunity to thank all our members that were present at the seminar, yes a group of really good and serious people we have here. For my part, I was able to train almost as normal and  of course I have been paying for that afterwards because it went worse, but I feel I will be done complaining as some people have dislocated their shoulder and this is way worse. We wish Coshe a quick recovery .

JKD SWEDEN how to …

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After discussions we decided to close the FB group page and use my blog as source of information instead.

I have several categories on the right , under JKD stockholm we will only have Group related topics, you can see what other categories are about.

If you want to see the latest post you can do so in the blog front page  by Clicking on the dates in the calendar.

To go back to the front page click on the title JEET KUNE DO STOCKHOLM or on the page  link appearing on the right of the posts “junfanjkd”.

Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂

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Journey

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oh WOW!!! how ridiculous can become even more ridiculous ? now it is getting almost funny,  there are some really dum heads out there, better leave them where they are , my god !

By trying to create some kind of structure , it has created total chaos BUT what is really important here ? well me and my training partners, my real friends and number one MY training, so I took two minutes of my time reading a creepy forum, that is about all the time I will allow myself to loose on that .

Now, let´s focus on what´s important again.

I was quite happy with the fact I could train almost normally at the seminar but  I knew I would pay for that. It is worse now and the health care system in Sweden being a total joke,  I won´t get any doctor appointment for that. I guess I have to suck up the pain that I have all day long everyday and night,  it has now been 3 weeks.

I have learnt a lesson again,  same as in my private life, I will not let anyone hurt me again , not in that way. I will train harder on footwork to avoid people taking me down, this is a real motivation right here.

I have been suffering physically for three weeks and don´t even know how long it is gonna take, this can´t happen to me again.

Next week Micke and I will leave for San Francisco where we´ll meet Jeff Chinn and I hope, Allen Joe . Great times to come !

Training and friendship Sweden 2011

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The seminar was a success, we all were very happy to meet each other and the gathering was not only appreciated but needed.

This is such a good opportunity to  get to know people and share knowledge and experience. everyone has always something to learn from other people and this is how it should be. Sharing the knowledge , learn from each other and  even criticize each other in order to come a dialogue which will benefit all parts.

The climate was very simple and relaxed, the question is not to know who is the best because really , this is not the point, the question is evolution and comparing to last seminar in 2009,  we noticed an improvement in each of us, which is so good !

The level of this seminar was good, we had a great time, Mike is a very good teacher and we thank him for giving us the opportunity.

A special thanks to Mikael who worked very hard to make this happen.

I also want to thank Robin Ng for being our photographer and Stefan for letting us use the club.

Thanks to all participants, see you next time .

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.