dear Santa,
For next year please make the trip to San Francisco possible.
thank you 🙂
And to all our JKD friends, Merry Christmas !
Getting better!
I´d better write while I can access my blog !:-)
so yes I am much better, I had a set back some weeks ago, as I thought I was better I did not think some exercises are still a NO GO , so I trained for the plank, my record is 4,15 and this is why I went straight back to the doctor ! stupid yes but how long is that going to take now really ???
so no plank anymore, Ok. I can do almost anything else so it is not the end of the world, the most important is to reach my goal which is to build myself some serious muscles and get stronger in order to avoid JKD injuries.
San Francisco 2014
Next week we would have been on a plane on our way to our beloved town but we could not make it this year.
I feel sad about it, I know how sunny and awesome the town is in november compared to what we have here.
We are of course already planning for the trip next year and we want to make it as soon as possible.
So Allen , Annie , Julie and Jeff, we´ll see you soon !
hello!
Well I haven´t written for quite some time because I could not access my blog, this happens a lot and as I said before, there is no help to get from my blog provider. I have considered deleting it instead and start a new one but I have worked a lot on this and written many things over the years, I don´t want all this to desappear.
Yesterday at the gym I tried to lift more weights and I was thinking how it has taken one year for my shoulder to get better, this is ridiculous! The focus now is to get stronger and get myself some serious muscle mass. I know this will help me prevent injuries like this in the future. This is actually the main problem and the reason why I am injured all the time. I am not strong enough even if I am tough, no strength means you have no business in Martial Arts. This is a set back for me, I had come a long way but I could never reach the next level and this is why.
I can say I have worked a lot during the past months and I can see some difference. I am also getting educated on how to workout properly and I am constantly trying to get good informations from different sources. Not only is it good to know what you are doing, it is also very interesting to learn how the body works.
A lot of women think they will transform into a man by lifting weights, well I will not give a course on that , there is a huge amount of information everywhere. Being strong and having a descent muscle mass is good for various reasons.
For information the person I am getting most of my information from is the Swedish Fitness Athlete Pauline Nordin.
Blog!
I have difficulties accessing my blog these days but I still get some suspicious comments on some of my posts, apparently I missed to close comments on some of them, too bad I have to close comments because of some people find it funny to send me some trash over the internet but that´s the way it is, you can´t please everyone and I don´t intend to.
Anyway the new program I have at the gym is working really good I am happy about the fact that I can increase the weights so I am good even if I have a lot of work ahead of me, in other words my shoulder is much better !
We are still planning to fly to San francisco this year to meet our friends Jeff and Julie and Allen and Annie, again this year the best week will be Thanksgiving week , for some reason this is the cheapest week of the year from Sweden. This also means that we´ll be in SF for Bruce´s 74th birthday in the town where he was born 🙂
NORWAY
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 !
Brandon Lee
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.
Xray
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 🙂 🙂 🙂
End of the tunnel
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 🙂
