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It’s kind of funny because now that I’m no longer competing in karate, I spent the entire winter focused on snow skiing. The only karate bo staff moves I’ve been doing for the last six months were the parts I use during my live motivational talks. I also include them in my diversity talks as well but apart from those moves, I haven’t been doing my entire weapons form at all.
Well, I decided to pick up my karate bo staff to do my complete form the other day and I actually had trouble remembering some of the parts from my form! It’s been awhile. Same thing with my Chinese staff form too. Although I remember the individual techniques and they were still executed pretty good, I just didn’t remember the actual sequences they were in.
By the end of the workout, I got some type of workable weapons form back but I wasn’t sure if it was exactly the way I left it before the winter. I’ll need a few more training sessions to get comfortable with the sequences again and then video what I’ve got to see how the form looks. I don’t think I’ll have any problems bringing back at least a decent karate bo staff form I can perform anytime.
To see the brief moves that I actually did do all winter and spring, I do them not only in my live talks but also did them for an episode of my Clint Cora Motivational WebTV where I used my karate bo staff as a teaching tool for a principle of achieving life success. Check it out as many probably didn’t realize that a martial arts weapon can be used to illustrate such concepts.
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