We went through this technique in great detail today. I need to remember to move the feet so I get the arm extension right. And to move the feet so I get the hips moving. Hips need to be moving to move people. So it was interesting.
Then when it came time to take ukemi, had to remember to exhale when I hit the deck and bend into the fall.
17 November 2009
15 November 2009
11 October 2009
Icepacks
The Shark often complains about my affinity for ice packs. It's not that I necessarily have an affinity for them, it's that I have a phobia about inflammation in my soft tissue. Soft tissue being anything that's not bone which is hard tissue in the parlance of my people. I used to fight the inflammation with oral nsaids and herbal antiinflammatories and then my gut got ugly about it so that's not happening anymore. So I'm all over the ice packs.
Good times, good times.
Good times, good times.
04 October 2009
The Universe is a funny old gal
Yesterday, my sister had an extra ticket to see Bruce of Springsteen. Perhaps you are familiar with the name. Like Springsteen, I grew up in Freehold NJ (sharkbutt will argue that I'm grown out not grown up, but whatever!) It's probably been about 10 years or so since I've seen he and the E Street Band in concert and probably been about 20 since I've seen them in concert in NJ. There is a religious fervor to the madness surrounding it and I ain't even gonna lie. I was swept up in it. And yeah, I know every word to every song. This got me home at about 1 this morning and the alarm at 6 was ugly and early. If ya know what I mean. But I had to fetch the mothership for our annual trek to the Race for the Cure. And there is a religious fervor to the race for the cure. The energy is extraordinary. And not just from the 15 kids I high fived on my way through.
Great weekend, very powerful stuff.
Great weekend, very powerful stuff.
29 September 2009
Sigh
This evenings adventure was shihonage. Or as I like to call it goddamn shihonage. For me it is one of the most frightening projection throws because if you don't keep your partners hand in the proper place you can really trash their shoulder.
This is what it looks like:
Yokomenuchi Shihonage
This is what it looks like:
Yokomenuchi Shihonage
26 September 2009
Meditation
Sharkbutt is helping me type this because my eyeballs are dilated. It is expected to take a while because we fight about the spelling. Sharkbutt being a way more creative speller than I. (note from sharkb - her mooey, that why her no spell fun)
There's all kinds of writing on the subject of meditation, not many of them discuss it in bare bones terms. I will, somedays the good feeling wash over you (sharkb - making you so full of the milk of human kindness that you moo) somedays it's like grinding glass between your teeth. Most days it just is what it is, sitting on your ass observing your thoughts. (shark - if you foodchik it your thought). The point is to sit quietly, quiet your mind and recognize your thoughts are just that thoughts.
(sharkb - try that, donut call it nuffin, sit and fink or donut fink)
There's all kinds of writing on the subject of meditation, not many of them discuss it in bare bones terms. I will, somedays the good feeling wash over you (sharkb - making you so full of the milk of human kindness that you moo) somedays it's like grinding glass between your teeth. Most days it just is what it is, sitting on your ass observing your thoughts. (shark - if you foodchik it your thought). The point is to sit quietly, quiet your mind and recognize your thoughts are just that thoughts.
(sharkb - try that, donut call it nuffin, sit and fink or donut fink)
24 September 2009
24
I am marking 24 years of sobriety, the last time I had a drink was 9-23-85. In those twenty four years I have learned a thing or two about a thing or two and I will share 24 of them in case they might help someone else. These are not original at least not all of them, but to me they've been true.
1 - The universe gives you what you need to learn, which ain't necessarily what you want or deserve.
2 - The universe will repeat these things you need to learn until learn them.
3 - Once you get past fear as a motivator, you can allow yourself to be kind. Instinctively, naturally kind.
4 - Fearful people can be assholes, but mainly they're just scared.
5 - Assholes don't always have enough sense to be afraid.
6 - The need for resolution is an addiction.
7 - The need for understanding, yep, also an addiction.
8 - Somedays one day at a time is too damn far ahead to plan, somedays I managed it 5 minutes at a time.
9 - Farts smell because they're passing through shit on their way out. Hey, I didn't say it was all gonna be worthwhile things to know.
10 - Anger might not be healthy, but it was the only thing that got my ass out of bed for a lot of years.
11 - Sarongs, sports bras and tattoos is a scary, scary look for me.
12 - Turn into the source of the pain. Turning away, you take your eyes off it and start to fear 'it' which is more frightening than facing it and staring it down.
13 - Cat hurl remediation - step 1 - pick it up, step 2 - soak up the remaining liquid with paper towels - step 3 - sprinkle baking soda on the spot - step 4 - scrub with a brush and let sit - step 5 - vacuum it up.
14 - Bracing your abdomen during exertion will protect your low back. This is not sucking in your stomach, brace like you're going to be punched.
15 - Meditate to quiet your mind.
16 - And meditate to quiet the voices in your head. You know, the negative ones. The ones you hear when the fear takes over, or the self loathing takes over.
17 - Self loathing is self absorbed, knock it the fuck off.
18 - Don't pass up an opportunity to have an inside joke with yourself.
19 - Examine and test your instincts well enough to trust them.
20 - Don't give your cats canned people tuna - it's really not good for them.
21 - Keeping your toilet seats up gives your cats the opportunity to fall in the toilet, and put cats toys in your toilet. It also messes up the feng shui in your house.
22 - Being on either end of a headbutt hurts like a bitch.
23 - Heartbreak sucks but if you handle it right, it creates more room in your heart.
24 - If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you ever going to love anyone else?
Some practical (more than not) some useless.
1 - The universe gives you what you need to learn, which ain't necessarily what you want or deserve.
2 - The universe will repeat these things you need to learn until learn them.
3 - Once you get past fear as a motivator, you can allow yourself to be kind. Instinctively, naturally kind.
4 - Fearful people can be assholes, but mainly they're just scared.
5 - Assholes don't always have enough sense to be afraid.
6 - The need for resolution is an addiction.
7 - The need for understanding, yep, also an addiction.
8 - Somedays one day at a time is too damn far ahead to plan, somedays I managed it 5 minutes at a time.
9 - Farts smell because they're passing through shit on their way out. Hey, I didn't say it was all gonna be worthwhile things to know.
10 - Anger might not be healthy, but it was the only thing that got my ass out of bed for a lot of years.
11 - Sarongs, sports bras and tattoos is a scary, scary look for me.
12 - Turn into the source of the pain. Turning away, you take your eyes off it and start to fear 'it' which is more frightening than facing it and staring it down.
13 - Cat hurl remediation - step 1 - pick it up, step 2 - soak up the remaining liquid with paper towels - step 3 - sprinkle baking soda on the spot - step 4 - scrub with a brush and let sit - step 5 - vacuum it up.
14 - Bracing your abdomen during exertion will protect your low back. This is not sucking in your stomach, brace like you're going to be punched.
15 - Meditate to quiet your mind.
16 - And meditate to quiet the voices in your head. You know, the negative ones. The ones you hear when the fear takes over, or the self loathing takes over.
17 - Self loathing is self absorbed, knock it the fuck off.
18 - Don't pass up an opportunity to have an inside joke with yourself.
19 - Examine and test your instincts well enough to trust them.
20 - Don't give your cats canned people tuna - it's really not good for them.
21 - Keeping your toilet seats up gives your cats the opportunity to fall in the toilet, and put cats toys in your toilet. It also messes up the feng shui in your house.
22 - Being on either end of a headbutt hurts like a bitch.
23 - Heartbreak sucks but if you handle it right, it creates more room in your heart.
24 - If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you ever going to love anyone else?
Some practical (more than not) some useless.
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