WARNING: REAL UPDATE
Well, school is going well. I've been getting to know Dr. Kicklighter, my Historian's Craft professor, a good bit. So far I think I would give it my favorite class award.
David Peake, Matt Hinshaw, and I found a townhouse (I suppose that's the correct word) that we'll be living in next semester, and hopefully for the next two years. And honestly I'm not trying to sound like Napoleon Dynamite (Lord knows that I do that way too much anyway) but it's probably the best place I've seen in Auburn. Flipping huge den, sweet kitchen, awesome rooms, a deck and a backyard. The only downside is that right behind our backyard are train tracks. But I should get used to that after a month or so. And I really like my roommates. It should be good times, good times.
RUF is going pretty well. I'm going to be playing bass next week so I suppose I should limber up my fingers. I was going to do a dorm Bible study but I have decided against it.
And I need to be drinking more calcium. Tonight Se Hing Gabe introduced us to a little Wing Chun, which did a number on my left forearm. We practiced Maun Sao (Questioning Hand) and Pak Sao (Slapping Hand). Pak Sao is pretty much what it means exactly; it invovles hitting someone with the whole of your hand pretty forcefully, but not in a kind of knock them back way. You only want to move the person's arms a little bit so you can open up a line for a punch.
Maun Sao is a ton different. It's not an attack so much as a block with attacking options. Jeet Kune Do frowns on blocks usually, so when you do take time to block a hit, you're also opening up several routes for punches or lines for attacks. So I suppose it's aggressive blocking. Basically, you deflect a punch by beating someone to the middle of the distance between you. Your forearm is facing upwards with your fingers extended. So basically that bone takes a beating when you try to get it down over the course of two hours. My forearm is noticeably swollen and I'm expecting a huge line of purple all up and down my arm tomorrow.
Gabe, who loves Wing Chun more than any of the other disciplines Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do involves, showed me what it was like. The first two hurt really bad, and the third time fire ran up and down my arm. My hand fell instinctively.
I really need to start drinking lots of milk.
This weekend is RUF's Winter Conference in Fall Creek Falls. It's a conference for all of the Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia RUFs. I'm pretty excited about going, and I look forward to some good times of fellowship and preaching. On the form that advertises the conference, Brian put under "Things to Do":
- Speed Date
- Talk about how Auburn beat Tennessee and Alabama in football
- Make fun of the Vanderbilt Sports program
I think I'll probably do all three.
Hopefully a more exciting update will follow sometime.
David Peake, Matt Hinshaw, and I found a townhouse (I suppose that's the correct word) that we'll be living in next semester, and hopefully for the next two years. And honestly I'm not trying to sound like Napoleon Dynamite (Lord knows that I do that way too much anyway) but it's probably the best place I've seen in Auburn. Flipping huge den, sweet kitchen, awesome rooms, a deck and a backyard. The only downside is that right behind our backyard are train tracks. But I should get used to that after a month or so. And I really like my roommates. It should be good times, good times.
RUF is going pretty well. I'm going to be playing bass next week so I suppose I should limber up my fingers. I was going to do a dorm Bible study but I have decided against it.
And I need to be drinking more calcium. Tonight Se Hing Gabe introduced us to a little Wing Chun, which did a number on my left forearm. We practiced Maun Sao (Questioning Hand) and Pak Sao (Slapping Hand). Pak Sao is pretty much what it means exactly; it invovles hitting someone with the whole of your hand pretty forcefully, but not in a kind of knock them back way. You only want to move the person's arms a little bit so you can open up a line for a punch.
Maun Sao is a ton different. It's not an attack so much as a block with attacking options. Jeet Kune Do frowns on blocks usually, so when you do take time to block a hit, you're also opening up several routes for punches or lines for attacks. So I suppose it's aggressive blocking. Basically, you deflect a punch by beating someone to the middle of the distance between you. Your forearm is facing upwards with your fingers extended. So basically that bone takes a beating when you try to get it down over the course of two hours. My forearm is noticeably swollen and I'm expecting a huge line of purple all up and down my arm tomorrow.
Gabe, who loves Wing Chun more than any of the other disciplines Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do involves, showed me what it was like. The first two hurt really bad, and the third time fire ran up and down my arm. My hand fell instinctively.
I really need to start drinking lots of milk.
This weekend is RUF's Winter Conference in Fall Creek Falls. It's a conference for all of the Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia RUFs. I'm pretty excited about going, and I look forward to some good times of fellowship and preaching. On the form that advertises the conference, Brian put under "Things to Do":
- Speed Date
- Talk about how Auburn beat Tennessee and Alabama in football
- Make fun of the Vanderbilt Sports program
I think I'll probably do all three.
Hopefully a more exciting update will follow sometime.