tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18465541.post113277467724874344..comments2023-10-01T10:41:23.092-05:00Comments on Going my Way: Countdown! 3........Mirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01918610819952156537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18465541.post-1155734922526749352006-08-16T08:28:00.000-05:002006-08-16T08:28:00.000-05:00Oh dear.. I do not want to toot any horns.. but I ...Oh dear.. I do not want to toot any horns.. but I have promised myself that I would be honest when asked a question. <BR/><BR/>Each week this summer I have been doing 13 1/2 hours of Instructed karate lessons, and added on an additional 8 hours of home training per week.. so yes.. I've managed to keep up about 22 hours per week of training. This is going to boost up in the next three weeks by 6 more hours due to upcoming seminars.<BR/><BR/>And yet.. I still feel like I don't train enough.. there are so many things that have to go to the side to make time for the important things. I haven't practiced my higher belt kata in so long I actually feel a stab of inner guilt for neglecting them. BUT.. BUT... you HAVE to keep up the conditioning exercises, and each time you improve you have to add either more time on them, or weight to them.<BR/><BR/>I really wouldn't encourage others to cross train. I was placed into this situation by my circumstances ( i.e.: my sensei stopping teaching)<BR/><BR/>I found that cross-training made it so difficult ( still makes it difficult for me even now) to meet the high standards of each art. As you advance in your knowledge you will find out that there are so many little nuances in your style that make it work the way that it does. You try to make the movement become reflexive, and without thought so that you can do it at 'superspeed'. if you try to absorb two different ways of doing the same movement.. your brain has troubles remembering what you want it to do and you slow down. The more choices you give your body for that movement.. the more slower you move.<BR/><BR/>If cross training is the path that you want to take.. then be aware that it has many huge boulders to climb, and there will be many times when you will lose sight of where you were walking, and where you want to go.. and there is no one to guide you to where you want to be because not too many people have walked that path.Mirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918610819952156537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18465541.post-1155672549123235822006-08-15T15:09:00.000-05:002006-08-15T15:09:00.000-05:00Are you still doing 22 hours per week? If you are...Are you still doing 22 hours per week? If you are, wow. Good job and good work from coming a long way. I want to cross train too. I'm going to take kick boxing in the fall.Lizzie Woolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828044744156399975noreply@blogger.com