Two Years In Canada

Finally - two years in Canada! Looking for chances to connect with more skiers.

Happy New Year!

2012 ended with a bang, I should say! Although I didn't get any accounting job in the US as I wanted to, at least I found something and have put in 303 days so far. I'm closing in on the one-year mark. Yippee!

And I've gained a lot of good athletic experience at my karate practice and running adventures. Not too shabby to have started the year at 7th kyu and ended with 3rd kyu. I've exhausted all the color belts that I can get. The only belt left is the black one!

The running events - one 10k, one half marathon - allowed me to familiarize myself with races. I can and should improve on my speed and pacing. But I will just take it easy.

Just hope I can return to the snow belt one day soon so that I can train with real skis and real snow. Oh snow god, please bless me this year!

Happy New Year!

Chin-up 12 times. Yay me!

11 chin ups

Today, I just did 11 chin-ups with relative ease. Next goal: 15 chin-ups. I hope I'll get there before year-end.

A big thank you to Coach 陳世雄 . This evening I learned about maintaining the hip forward posture while lunging forward. This way, one can generate or maintain the thrust forward. This posture is critical for both karate and cross-country skiing. If I could I would devote more time to this technique. 感謝 陳世雄 教練指導 在前進時維持臀部向前在空手道很重要 在越野滑雪一樣重要 有機會我要多練習這一項技巧

It's great to know that I can do 10 chin-ups whenever I want to. I don't want to give up this sense of power, ever.

Finally received my purple belt! Now I'm at 5th kyu (level), meaning I'm four stops away from the black belt. In my life I've had quite a few false starts with karate, but this time I hope I can make it to the black belt with minimal delay and, at the same time, maintain or improve my cross country skiing techniques. (That is not to say I absolutely have to earn the black belt - just a goal for myself.) 終於拿到紫帶了! 希望這次重新學習空手道能一路不停順利升上黑帶, 同時改進我的越野滑雪技術. 倒不是說非要拿到黑帶不可, 只是我把黑帶當成一個目標.