My form is horrible. But I am just finding a way to make it work with the body I have. Jukucho of Rishinjuku karate actually encouraged me to adapt and stop forcing “standard” techniques if my anatomy doesn’t allow it.

As a kid I have always had trouble sleeping. From not being able to get to sleep to nightmares, night terrors and waking up bathing in sweat yelling 'Madre Maria, Ayuda Me!' (I never learned Spanish but everyone was getting slaughtered in a church) But for the past year I've been really focused on getting 7,5 to 8 hours of sleep per night and it's doing wonders. I do this by tracking my sleep per night, calculating weekly averages. And my training results are noticably better when I slept 8 hours or more when comparing my training logs to my sleep log. Anyone else here a bad sleeper?

The biggest challenge in Martial arts isn't the strength and conditioning, the perfect combination or cross-training six disciplines. It's his do you keep showing up? Through injury. Through life phases. Through good times. Through hard times. How do I trick my brain? When it's telling me the class already started, I'm hurt or something else? It's a part of my identity. If my shoulder hurts I'll train jabs. If I hit my head, I'll slowly train footwork. If I have something to celebrate, it's preferably outside of training hours. If I'm going through something, training is my anchor. If we skip two weeks, the third will be harder to get back in the rhythm. So many hours and weeks wasted on my end because of exams, injuries or something else. Keep training 💪

The low kick course is done! ✅ You can find it in the classroom. Watch, train and start chopping 🪓 people down. https://www.skool.com/rishinjuku-karate-8304/classroom/e7b77613

Do your thing. Make your music. 🎵 Paint 🎨 your painting. Build your machine. There will always be critics. Be a “doer”.