Tuesday Tips: Generate Motivation
Posted on | March 10, 2009
All of us need a reason, or rather motivation, to do anything. Even if it’s something we enjoy, the reason we do it is because we enjoy doing it, thus that is our reason. Motivation can be a hard thing to keep consistent though.
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Tags: arnold sports festival > generate > lazy > motivation > picture > tt
Arnold Sports Festival – 2009
Posted on | March 10, 2009
I recently attended the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. I was only able to make it up one of the three days that it was going on for, but I still had a blast. I ended up taking some photo’s while I was there. I’m not too great of a camera man and I also just bought that camera so I haven’t figured out the best settings it should be on. Plus, a lot of the photos I took were from afar, so don’t expect anything too great. Below are some samples though. You can go to my Flickr set to find the rest though.
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Tags: arnold > arnold sports festival > competition > convention > festival > fight > spar > sports
Random Video Friday: The Kung Fu Master
Posted on | March 6, 2009
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon these, but they are great! This guy is hilarious. 
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Thursday Reflections: Understand the harm and benefit in everything.
Posted on | March 5, 2009
All around us there are many things going on all at once. It’s impossible for us to keep track of everything that surrounds us. Sometimes while we’re focused on one thing, we miss the whole picture. And other times we simply stumble into the middle of something already on going. Confused yet? Good.
What I’m talking about is the circumstances that come up every day. Most of us interact with other people for quite a large sum of each of our work days. When we’re off, or rather on the weekends, we interact with others outside of work. All this interaction creates possibilities. And a portion of the possibilities aren’t very good.
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Tuesday Tips: Fear of Injury
Posted on | March 3, 2009
Fear can get the best of us sometimes. Doesn’t really matter if it’s concerning Martial Arts or not. However, in Martial Arts the most common fear is very simple: injury.
Most of us simply don’t spar very rough for this reason. Everyone has their definition of rough though. For instance, a lot of places only allow point sparring so that you minimize the risk of injury a substantial amount. Yet, the MMA doesn’t lower the level of risk nearly as much. Sure, it’s much safer than what you would really be fighting like to save your life, but in comparison to point sparring, it’s brutal.
Even with all the pads, accidents do happen quite often. Most of them are small injuries that leave contestants out of commission for a while but don’t inflict permanent damage. But, there are those injuries(like the one’s here), that show exactly what can happen during any sort of sparring, training, etc.
So, should this fear stop you from practicing such things? Well, I can’t answer that question for you. All I can say is that for me, any injury(including death) is a risk worth taking. I don’t mean to say that I take those things lightly, it’s just that practicing Martial Arts has been ingrained into me. I couldn’t ever stop completely, even if I wanted to. It’d be like trying to deny who I am. Ask any person that has a hobby that is somewhat dangerous, like most sports. Each person has their own personal reason they continue to follow through with it even though there are risks. You simply have to find out if you have one or not. Many people are perfectly content not practicing Martial Arts, and that is fine, because either way is simply a choice that can’t be right nor wrong.
I can’t tell you how to over come fear of getting injured, because that’s something each person has to find their own way through. I can only say that to some people, including myself, being permanently injured isn’t the worst thing that could happen. Maybe Martial Arts is for you, or maybe it isn’t.
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