My Journey on the road of Martial Arts

Hi, I'm Nic, 24, and this is my martial arts journey. Taekwondo, running, lifting.

[stephfitblr]

here’s my blind breaking - I had my eyes closed while the holders set up so I didn’t know what I’d be doing. I was just told I had to use one hand technique and also had to break all five in succession without stopping.

The part where I went uhhhhhh was because I was going to do a spinning hook kick but the holder had the board too low and I didn’t know if I could make him raise it, so I just did a roundhouse kick instead.

This was before the brick break and I was a bundle of nerves so I didn’t think clearly enough to do any more complicated kicks 😅

[thepathtodan]

Nicely done 👍

[karatestuffs]

The  Dojo is for Losing

My sensei was talking to the class after jujitsu tonight and he mentioned something I feel not many young, competitive martial artists realize.

We had been rolling for the first time in about a month, and we had a specific goal, either to sweep someone or to get to a dominant position, depending on which person we were. WInner stayed in so it was basically my sensei staying in the whole time

At the end, he said, “This is not real life. This is the Dojo. The dojo is where you come to lose. This is where you can get rid of all the losing. If you have a stack of hay you can either surf through the stack and hope to find the needle, or you can grab a handfull of hay, and throw it away until you just have the needle. That’s what the dojo is for, losing.”  

I can’t exactly explain why this resonated with me, but I wanted to share it.

[newazatime]

Budoblr! 

I want to hear about your experiences and feelings of training martial arts only once or so a week. It’s still better than nothing, right? Right. 

(per previous dramatic post, update: I feel it is financially possible to continue training during this season.) The problem though is that with the physical demand of my job and varying levels of introversion and social anxiety (say that three times quickly), the best I can manage is one night of jiujitsu a week. Maybe two. We’ll work towards that. 

I have no problem working out at the gym in the office because it’s in the same building, so I’ll try to do that more than once a week because my body is still getting used to weight training again. But watch out. In a few months, prepare for thiccness. 

So do any of you currently or have in the past been limited to training only once a week? I’d love to read about it. 

This has been a budoblr post.

[thepathtodan]

Started off 2018 with a goal I set myself last year. It has always been a dream to run the Marina Barrage in Singapore as it has incredible views of the Merlion and Marina Bay Sands. It was a hot and sweaty run, very different to the climate I am used to back in Melbourne but it felt great to push through and complete 2 laps. 6km in 35 mins and I am really happy with the timing. Hopefully in a years time when I am back in Singapore, I will be able to run this in under 30mins!

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[spn-fandom-breathing-heavily]

not even risking that shit

[codyslipring-deactivated2015060]

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

[tumblgang]

She ain’t no games in real life so I take her serious all the time

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

I’m not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, 🙅🏽🙅🏾🙅🏿 Negative.

[skuubasally]

Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.

[luckytaters]

who the fuck is Madame Zeroni

[saudadesinfinitas-deactivated20]

Look at these stupid children who don’t know who Madame Zeroni is

[drayaintshit-deactivated2019030]

☝🏾😂

[callmedeku24]

Man lissen if you don’t know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button

[emeraldmercury]

Idk who she is but I have an exam today so I’ll reblog her

[haiku-robot]

idk who she is but i have an exam today so i’ll reblog her

^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!

[jacobmick]

Because wise, I am.

[seymonecristina]

Oh fucks no she’s back lmao must reblog. I’m sorry guys

[blackgirlart]

2 million people aren’t wrong

[thepathtodan]

Update

Long time no blog. But just a quick update. Competed in my first inter-club comp in November and won both sparring and poomsae, just got handed the most improved senior member of the club at my tkd xmas party last night and will be finally grading for 1st Gup/Kyu next week. Things have changed a lot in the last year since I have been back at tkd. Let’s see where the next year will take me!

[ericthebrave-deactivated2017121]

Congrats bro ! Do you do ITF or WTF ?

[thepathtodan]

Thanks! WTF. It's been a while especiallywith an almost 2 year hiatus as well. Good to get back in the groove, competing and instructing as well.

[thepathtodan]

Update

Long time no blog. But just a quick update. Competed in my first inter-club comp in November and won both sparring and poomsae, just got handed the most improved senior member of the club at my tkd xmas party last night and will be finally grading for 1st Gup/Kyu next week. Things have changed a lot in the last year since I have been back at tkd. Let's see where the next year will take me!

[monoscandal]

Is it just me or do other martial artists feel the strange urge to show off their post sparring bruises too?

[kellymagovern]

Taemi and her vertical side kick [x]

[kiko-blu-deactivated20231028]

540 degrees of kicking.

Hanbyeol Jang 장한별

[thepathtodan]

One day

[fivekets]

someday, in the distant future, humans will once again be capable of hearing the phrase “what is love” without also feeling the primal urge to  respond with “baby don’t hurt me”

[megparsec]

So at that point, people will say “baby don’t hurt me”…no more?

[iwantasecretgarden]

I tried to scroll past I really did

[quousque]

beautiful set up, perfect follow-through. great teamwork everyone

[firewhisky]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Brian Yu’s heartbreaking poem will strike anyone with students loans to the core.

[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

[feitanswife]

So moral of story is be specific

[chronicmuppetbrain]

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

[aethersea]

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

[aquagrunt]

Attention straight boys I have a question only you can answer

[thx]

yes?

[aquagrunt]

why is my cars check engine light on

[terriamon]

“Tch, like I would reveal to you the secret of the Uchiha Clan so easily”

[httpmingyus]

— out of context kdramas;

[fysw]

#married