I want to 戦い!!

It's a craving. I can't help it. Why I want to fight is beyond me. All I know is that there is somebody that looks like a worthy opponent, so I've been training, and getting into fights(that's another post soon to be written) so that when I get to him, I can plug him up like 日向 ネジ (Hyuga Neji). This guy isn't my arch rival or something, he's actually kind of a friend. Oh, and when I say fight I don't mean street fighting, or boxing, I'm talking martial arts.

So for training I've been working on my front and side kicks. It's not that they're week, it's just that they're not up to par with my round house, back, low, high, mid, leg sweep, and crescent moon kicks. It sounds weird because those are the most basic kicks, and I think that that is why they aren't as good as I would like.

Also for training, I've been working on my pressure point locations, finger strength and durability, punches, core strength, joint and limb elasticity, physical endurance, mental endurance, and stamina.

I'm glad we have break so that I can used to the training. For pressure point location training, I got a poster with the most commonly targeted pressure pionts. Then I went on the Internet and got some more pressure point locations and put them on the poster. After that I got three boxes that would add up to equal my height when stacked, and put a few of my clothse on them. Then I tried to remember the pressure pionts. I only memorized like 10 so far, but that's O.K because I have about 2 weeks of break.

For finger strength I have been trying to to push ups on fingers. Occasionally I'll try them on only three fingers : thumb, index, and middle, because those are the only ones that you're really going to use. I also try to pull myself up on the door posts sometimes, but my fingers are too weak.

Have you ever seen Jet Li's training video? Well if you haven't he does this one training excecise where he puts a stack of news papers on a tree and punches it until God knows when. Well, that's what I'm trying to do. I try to dedicate at least an hour to punching this tree in my back yard. Well, I have to sneak becuase my mom doesn't like me doing it and my hands get really cold since it's cold and snowing outside now. But at least I try. And also, it kinda hurts after about 30 minutes, becuase, duh, I've been punching a tree for half an hour.

For core strength I just do alot of push ups and sit ups. Not alot to explain.

This is where being in track pays off. While in track, I learned loads of stretches and tecniques to keep the body nice and elastic. Being a former shuttle hurderler, I know that if you don't stretch properly you can pull muscles with ease. If I want this guy to see vast variety of flavorful kicks, I need to stretch before I heart myself.

For phisical endurance, I truck jump ,kick, and punch many many times in a fast recession. I don't want to give this guy an opening, so I kneed to be fast and to be able to keep up that speed.

For mental endurance, I put myself up against my fears. Snakes, trouble, lurking beings. I have to, becuase if I beat them out then I can sure as h*** beat this guy.

For stamina, I do all of these things. I would run, but there's no way that I'm running in this wheather.

So what are you doing over the break to better yourself/ prepare you?