Today was the first day of the required masters training at Spring Nationals in Las Vegas. I have been getting ready for this for the last week and haven’t kept up on my posts.
The entire theme of the all day training centered around a couple key concepts. Tradition and Discipline. We worked on all the color belt forms and got deep detail. One of the most beneficial learning parts was to be able to get some clarification on my current form and some of the footwork parts i have been struggling with.
In some regards, I very much felt like a beginner again. So much more to learn. The “best” part was the fitness test at the very end. Going to be sore.
Much in the way of discipline was going back to some the principals we used to have more in the forefront. Moving with purpose, lining up straight, all moving as a group., yelling/answering up loudly. We would drill a form and if we didn’t all do the same move at the same time, or some weren’t putting max effort into their techniques, we would get stopped and had to start over.
I am grateful my body held together and if not for the modern miracle that is Advil/Tylenol, things would feel much, much worse.
Tomorrow i continue regular (non masters) training with black belt weapons form reviews. Since i need to review all these as part of the process, this is timely.