Push On With a Pushup

The dust settles as we move on to another year with whole new challenges. Congratulations to our newest Sifus, Sifu Krebs, Sifu Vanderham, Sifu Fuhr and Sifu Csillag. You all worked incredibly hard and I look up to all of you so much. Congratulations also to Sifus Regier and Vantuil for your promotions. You demonstrate to me what it means to be consistently improving. Also a congratulations to Sifu Y. Csillag, you're engagement in the school is of the caliber that I strive achieve one day. One more congratulations to all the students who received awards as well, you all earned them!

The banquet this weekend was phenomenal. It will be very hard to top this one for me. The emotional rollercoaster was absolutely intense! So much so I was still so full of energy yesterday. This gave me hope that I could beat that empty feeling afterwards that Sifu Brinker was mentioning to us earlier. Alas, this didn't happen, the hangover struck me hard today. As I woke up this morning I felt it, that weird feeling of emptiness. My bones were aching, my muscles sore. What happens now? Sadness was starting to creep up on me and as I looked down at the floor I noticed a yoga mat was rolled out beside the bed.. I smiled, and jumped on the floor to pump out some pushups and situps. This did help a bit, it helped me appreciate the little day to day acts that build up into a magnificent demonstration; knowing what it is like to achieve something as spectacular as we did on Saturday from something as simple as a pushup. Although, I think the empty feeling will stay for a little while. It's only natural after having such an emotional rush. 

One thing I thought of though while writing this. It's better to look to the horizon, not over the shoulder. Appreciate what we've accomplished but move on, move on to accomplish bigger and better things. Let's go monkeys, lets make these better things happen with the momentum generated by last year's team. All it takes is one pushup at a time..

Until then, take care everyone.