Soon is our annual seminar in Norway, always a pleasure!
It also marks the start of a new season and if you ask me , the best! spring and summer coming up, this is all good.
I received the result of the Xray and there is something wrong with some cervical discs but no serious problem that can´t be fixed, I don´t have the greenlight to use my right arm for JKD yet but I can do some exercises at the gym.
This one takes a very long time but I ´ LL BE BACK !
Mars 31st, 1993.
I remember when I heard the news, I was at my parents place in my hometown in France. Brandon Lee had passed in an accident on a movie set. This was so sad and unbelievable, Brandon had already joined his father in heaven.
Anyone can speculate on what happened, I prefer thinking he was called up there on a bigger mission.
I remember his accomplishments and his great performance on THE CROW, one great movie!
Rest in peace Brandon.
How interesting , as soon as I start to write about how better I am, I get worse! I can barely move these days.
I am supposed to write about my training and instead it is all about this injury and quite frankly this one starts to get on my nerves real bad!
So I am waiting for an Xray and will see what happens from here.
Anyway, I am looking for a smaller punching bag right now. I had a really heavy one and it was very hard I could not move it when I needed to because it was bigger and heavier than me :-), it has now moved to our club, where it is no problem for the guys to handle. Mikael has arranged the club with training stations, it is good to be able to have this possibility as well and is easily put away for JKD class.
We are nevertheless waiting for the winter to go away so we can start our outdoor training. I can at least run and do other stuff as long as I don´t lift or push or punch. So honestly and seeing the positive aspect in all this , there is no reason why I should not train footwork like a beast right now 🙂 🙂 🙂
I am back ! the shoulder is much better. Never give up the hope that it will get better! Most of the time it is a mind game and even if I had dark times it was never a question whether I would always train JKD.
I have trained JKD since 2004 probably the only girl in sweden that has lasted so long and I am proud of it. Question is why? Well because of what it brings to my life and because of how it makes me feel, I don´t need recocgnition, I don´t get any anyway either than from my own instructor and this is all I need.
Our group has fought to get there and we are here to stay. How I plan to write my blog will maybe change a little from now on but me and Mikael are serious about our training and even if less information is going to come out, the training is getting intensified. We feel it is not essential to share too much anymore, too bad but we have our reasons. nevertheless our JKD training is and remains! in Honour to our Sifu Ted.
We have talked about leaving Facebook, I am not in favour because there are some people I don´t want to loose contact with. I dont want either people to forget about TWJKD Sweden, I have worked hard to make us known, I won´t let some stupidity ruin our work. It is also our duty to keep ourselves alive, Ted Wong authorized our group and only our group in Sweden, this means a great deal to me and Mikael. Being on Facebook or not won´t change this of course but the contact we have with some people was made possible by FB so this is important.
As everyone does, we post pictures and videos, people are allowed to criticize and comment and they are more than welcome because this is the point if we post them! But I won´t allow disrespect, some people will be blocked or even deleted.
There is nothing more to say about this, now let´s go on with our lives and training with a positive attitude 🙂
That is the plan this year in september, I really look forward to this even if I am sad I won´t be in San Francisco this year. I cannot really explain the fact that San Francisco has a so huge place in our hearts, there are many things that we love about the town itsef and its relation to Bruce, our friends and the history behind it. It will be interesting to see if we get a similar feeling from Seattle, I for sure look forward to be able to pay my respects to Bruce and Brandon I am sure this will be the peak of our trip.
My shoulder is getting better, I can now add some weights to the exercises the doctor gave me. Acupuncture is working well even if I did not think it would.
I started to train and can do most drills but I have to take it easy on the power and increase gradually. As soon as I start to feel it in the shoulder I just have to stop.
I will have to do that until I get back to normal but that is good to be able to do anything at all, I am happy about that!
PS : in case anyone wonder about that Bloody white square coming after all my posts, it is something my blog provider has no interest in fixing , if I was paying for that blog I would for sure get a better service!
Oh well, That was my ” bitching” moment, let´s move on
Have a nice day 🙂
Let this year be a good training year!
My shoulder is still not good, I have trained last Wednesday and even though I was very careful and only did a few drills on mitts, I paid for it the rest of the week. The doctor says I should take it easy but I don´t think I can stay inactive anymore, I have to take myself back into the game one way or another.
I have felt bad and sorry for myself for months and let the injury dictate my life , what good did that do? So at the end, it is only a question of how I manage the situation, not the other way around.
I have left the bad spirit back in 2013 and start the New Year with a new attitude.
Happy new year !
Earlier this week I met with a doctor and a personal trainer, both say no to training…
This is no good news but no surprise either. I will have to focus on everything else but the right side, this is tough and my strong side will suffer from it, my whole training will suffer from it, but I will have to suck it up , I can´t just sit and do nothing anymore because it is starting to get to me real bad both mentally and physically.
The personal trainer told me she thought it would be better to stop all together because it is not the first time I injure the same side and I could end up with permanent damage. I answered “I wonder what Bruce Lee would think about that!”. No really it is difficult to understand for people outside the JKD world so I did not try too hard to explain but there is always a way and I will find mine.
I still can´t use my right arm so I have to rest a little longer but while I am at it, some “old” faces are just coming back with no warning !:-) Good to hear that Michel was back from San Francisco and trained together with Coshe who is back from LA for a month. Yesterday session was apparently very good and of course (as usual with those guys) very intense and enjoyable.
I am very sad to be out like this, it seems this time I will have to be very careful not to mess my arm up forever, the doc says it can become chronic if I am not careful, the problem is how careful can you be when you train martial arts? There is no way I give that up, I will just have to find my own way.
Bruce Lee´s Jeet Kune DO 