A week in review

Last week was good. Training is going well. The effects of cardio training are kicking in. The road work is now enjoyable as the legs are well up for it. The new weight set we got for the dojang is a great addition to the training. I run down to the dojang now and train there for an hour with the weights and then run home. Very enjoyable.

The Sunday session was equally as good. We did the colour belt patterns, then the first degree patterns with the lads and then I did the 2nd and 3rd degree patterns and they felt good. We also did some one step and some practice breaking. I'm going to have to start practicing my special break. I'm thinking about doing the twin directional kick from Juche/Kodang, although that may not be required, it might be something more steady like jumping reverse turning kick. Either way I need to have an array of special breaks ready to roll. The conditioning has kicked in now also.

I had the opportunity to participate in some 'leadership training' courses this week. We started on Monday. This stuff is very interesting indeed. This is training that leading executives get to experience. It's a real eye opener to see why some people behave they way they do. Thought patterns, meta programmes and perceptions, all extremely interesting and thankfully I now have a better understanding as to why people feel the need to make daft decisions, Even myself!

Towards the end of this week we cover the hot topic of managing people. That should be as interesting.

I'm looking forward to Korea. The whole event looks very exciting. There is a special training course with GM Choi Jung Hwa towards the end of the week in Korea in a special Taekwon-Do training centre, that I really am looking forward to. It will be a once in a life time experience. I never thought that the day I walked into Thomas Carthy's training hall that one day I would be heading to Korea to participate in a world Taekwon-Do event. Surreal in many ways. You know my home had an outside toilet up to when I was 17, now there's contextualisation, what was that about looking at the stars?? ;)