Blogging, Again
Although this blog has almost completely died out - indeed it was even down for a while - I’m recently feeling much more motivated to try and get this going again. I’ve had some pretty big changes in my personal life lately - nothing bad! - I’ve moved from France to the US via a few months spent in Germany, Austria and Australia.
I’ve obviously (and unfortunately) had to leave my old teacher and classmates and I’ve not yet found something that entirely fills the gap. On the upside I have found some very cool Jeet Kune Do classes which is actually turning out to be surprisingly similar to the Bagua I was doing. It is lot of fun and more aggressive than what I’m used to (might be good for me) it is certainly going to fix some holes in my technique that I didn’t know about and perhaps a few that I suspected. I’m definitely liking it.
On the downside - what I miss about Bagua so far, apart from my friends - the emphasis on health. I got into this stuff because Tai Chi fixed my back - once I realised how much difference Tai Chi was making to my back I was hooked and wanted more martial to go with my arts. Heh.
Anyways, as far as this blog goes, it is back. I’m also going to go back and revise all the old posts - fix up the grammar etc. Fortunately I never wrote all that much so it shouldn’t take too long.
So, hopefully, fun times ahead! I’ve got a lot to write about - some books (The Gift of Fear, The Book of Martial Power, some others …), some new exercises (Kettlebells!). I’ve moved the blog over to a different platform (only because wordpress is soul destroying) which I like but has some issues (like HTML in RSS feeds…); if it doesn’t work out I’ll try something else but for now it seems like fun. I’ve got a heap of half-written fragments, I’m really hoping to get them sorted out and posted soon!