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Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The only obstacle is in your mind!
Watching testings and classes at Jung SuWon I've had the opportunity to witness feats that many would consider impossible or at best improbable... Great Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim, through her own example of overcoming a life where as a child she was beaten for born a girl on the Lunar New Years (a great curse in her family's mind and culture), that anything is possible if you set your mind to it and remain determined and dedicated. How else could Dr. Kim broken 5000 years of Tae Kwon Do history to (as a girl or woman) first train and then become the first female Grandmaster?
Here is a video of one of Dr Kims students - the world might see him and think he has a disability because as a child an accident with a friend and a gun left him now in a wheel chair, but he has demonstrated over and over again, through his training at Jung SuWon, that limitations are only in your mind. They can be overcome!
Click <here> to see this in action! And click <here> to see again the latest article on Dr Kim!!
Here is a video of one of Dr Kims students - the world might see him and think he has a disability because as a child an accident with a friend and a gun left him now in a wheel chair, but he has demonstrated over and over again, through his training at Jung SuWon, that limitations are only in your mind. They can be overcome!
Click <here> to see this in action! And click <here> to see again the latest article on Dr Kim!!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Happy New Years - again! Second chance!
Lunar New Years is just around the corner! At Jung SuWon Martial Arts Academy Great Grandmaster Dr Tae Yun Kim teaches this is a second chance to set goals for the year, or re-start those goals!
If you ever think you can not reach your goal(s), see this. Let this motivation you! Here's one Jung SuWon Black Belt who shoes you that you can overcome anything. (click here) Physical limits (or limits you think you have), even the after affects of polio, mean nothing if your goal means more to you!
You can do it!
Victory!
If you ever think you can not reach your goal(s), see this. Let this motivation you! Here's one Jung SuWon Black Belt who shoes you that you can overcome anything. (click here) Physical limits (or limits you think you have), even the after affects of polio, mean nothing if your goal means more to you!
You can do it!
Victory!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Jung SuWon Double Palm Heel Brick Breaks - Everyone Benefits!
At the end of a recent class led by Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim at Jung SuWon Martial Arts Academy, Great Grandmaster gave two students unexpected, unforseen opportunities to do some unique breaks.
To help demonstrate to students that besides being able to focus on one opponent, like in advanced su ki, students should be able to visualize and do su ki as if they were facing 2, 3 or more opponents, Great Grandmaster had two bricks set up, side by side, for a double palm heel break. The first student, a Jung SuWon black belt, was called up, stated his goal, focused on it, and broke both bricks, each brick with one palm heel, at the same time! It was really impressive!
But for me the next Black Belt's break, the same set up, was even more powerful.
He too stated his goal, ki upped loud, and struck the bricks --- but only the right hand one broke. He re-gathered himself, focused, kipped again and struck the bricks - but this time the left hand brick broke and the right did not. More energy, more focus --- third try the right one broke again, but the left did not. But this time, you can guess the energy bouncing back up his hands and arms with each miss, the mental tremble to keep going, the regathering of resolution he required.... Fourth try --- impressive ki up --- and just the left broke.
At this point 4 tries in... Great Grandmaster asked him if he wanted to stop or continue. With the determination of a warrior of old he strongly said he wanted to continue. You could see it re-wakened his determination. He WAS going to break this. Great Grandmaster also then spoke to everyone in class watching --- asked all to actualize the break in their minds. Not just visualize (see it) in their minds, but actualize it in their minds. Make it real in their minds.
Fifth try --- the black belt gathered his energy, let out a ki up that must have been heard aroudn the block, jumped up higher than the holding bricks and came down, striking, resolute --- and both lam heels, both bricks -- broke!!!
The cheers were deafening!
For me, watching, the first student's break had been impressive - he showed it could be done, but in a sense it was HIS break. The second student's break, because Great Grandmaster asked us all to really focus and actualize the break - felt like not just his break, but OUR break!
To help demonstrate to students that besides being able to focus on one opponent, like in advanced su ki, students should be able to visualize and do su ki as if they were facing 2, 3 or more opponents, Great Grandmaster had two bricks set up, side by side, for a double palm heel break. The first student, a Jung SuWon black belt, was called up, stated his goal, focused on it, and broke both bricks, each brick with one palm heel, at the same time! It was really impressive!
But for me the next Black Belt's break, the same set up, was even more powerful.
He too stated his goal, ki upped loud, and struck the bricks --- but only the right hand one broke. He re-gathered himself, focused, kipped again and struck the bricks - but this time the left hand brick broke and the right did not. More energy, more focus --- third try the right one broke again, but the left did not. But this time, you can guess the energy bouncing back up his hands and arms with each miss, the mental tremble to keep going, the regathering of resolution he required.... Fourth try --- impressive ki up --- and just the left broke.
At this point 4 tries in... Great Grandmaster asked him if he wanted to stop or continue. With the determination of a warrior of old he strongly said he wanted to continue. You could see it re-wakened his determination. He WAS going to break this. Great Grandmaster also then spoke to everyone in class watching --- asked all to actualize the break in their minds. Not just visualize (see it) in their minds, but actualize it in their minds. Make it real in their minds.
Fifth try --- the black belt gathered his energy, let out a ki up that must have been heard aroudn the block, jumped up higher than the holding bricks and came down, striking, resolute --- and both lam heels, both bricks -- broke!!!
The cheers were deafening!
For me, watching, the first student's break had been impressive - he showed it could be done, but in a sense it was HIS break. The second student's break, because Great Grandmaster asked us all to really focus and actualize the break - felt like not just his break, but OUR break!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
"Your thoughts create reality" - Determination comes from within you!
"Your thoughts create reality"
Six Silent Master Images ("From Seven Steps to Inner Power" by Dr Tae Yun Kim)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=19TpT3K_Fy4
(see at 4:04 min into it)...
The two seconds or so at 4:04min into this video of my Jung SuWon Black Belt testing, might seem like just one break of many - after all, the other candidates break lots of bricks, and even bottles, in the video.
But those two seconds made a huge impact on me.
You see, that girl is me, and a couple years before, when I was testing for Red Belt, Great Grandmaster Dr Tae Yun Kim gave me the opportunity, during testing, to face breaking three bricks with ax kick.
I didn't break 3 bricks that night. I probably broke 30+ bricks--- first the top one of the stack of 3, then the top two, then the top one again, then 2, then none, then 1, then none, then 2, etc. At one point I somehow broke the middle brick in the stack of 3 while the top and bottom ones (all new bricks) remained untouched... I'd never seen that before! But - no matter how often I struck that stack of 3 bricks, that night during Red Belt testing I just couldn't gather together the extra bit of determination or focus needed to break a stack of three bricks in one shot.
For me, from that point to my black belt testing a couple years later, the thought of me breaking three bricks in with one Ax kick was about as believable as snow falling in the Sahara dessert. No way I could do that. It just wasn't going to happen.
It's hard to summarize Black Belt testing in words. It was an awesome mix of emotions (joy, fear, stress, happiness, etc) and techniques (forms, sparring tied to chairs, tied to poles, blindfolded...) but when, at Belt Ceremony, Great Grandmaster had three bricks setup in front of three of the candidates, one of them being me, I suddenly reached the most clear thought of my life:
I am only going to hit this once.
In that moment I felt a singular determination, a total, absolute focus, and a total letting go of any thought or concern for my foot, or pride, or any other emotion.
All three bricks were going to all break, and I was only going to hit the stack once.
Watching the video today, you can see me strike the bricks with an ax kick (not even that high of an ax kick, really), see all the bricks explode into pieces, and see me I jump back into cat stance in such joy and total elation.
I had done it! Before I'd thought it was impossible -- but I had just done it!
I want to thank Great Grandmaster so, so much. When ever I face a challenge, I remember those 3 bricks. I remember my Red Belt testing, where I just couldn't break the stack of three, and I remember successfully breaking them at my Black Belt Testing because of my singular, determined thought - I was only going to hit this once.
I'm not physically that big or tall, nor do I weigh that much. The moment I broke the stack of three bricks, though, showed me that I am not limited by my body, actually, but only by my mind. I can, when my mind, focus, and determination is totally set --- break through any obstacle life hands me.
Pil Seung! (Victory!)
Six Silent Master Images ("From Seven Steps to Inner Power" by Dr Tae Yun Kim)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=19TpT3K_Fy4
(see at 4:04 min into it)...
The two seconds or so at 4:04min into this video of my Jung SuWon Black Belt testing, might seem like just one break of many - after all, the other candidates break lots of bricks, and even bottles, in the video.
But those two seconds made a huge impact on me.
You see, that girl is me, and a couple years before, when I was testing for Red Belt, Great Grandmaster Dr Tae Yun Kim gave me the opportunity, during testing, to face breaking three bricks with ax kick.
I didn't break 3 bricks that night. I probably broke 30+ bricks--- first the top one of the stack of 3, then the top two, then the top one again, then 2, then none, then 1, then none, then 2, etc. At one point I somehow broke the middle brick in the stack of 3 while the top and bottom ones (all new bricks) remained untouched... I'd never seen that before! But - no matter how often I struck that stack of 3 bricks, that night during Red Belt testing I just couldn't gather together the extra bit of determination or focus needed to break a stack of three bricks in one shot.
For me, from that point to my black belt testing a couple years later, the thought of me breaking three bricks in with one Ax kick was about as believable as snow falling in the Sahara dessert. No way I could do that. It just wasn't going to happen.
It's hard to summarize Black Belt testing in words. It was an awesome mix of emotions (joy, fear, stress, happiness, etc) and techniques (forms, sparring tied to chairs, tied to poles, blindfolded...) but when, at Belt Ceremony, Great Grandmaster had three bricks setup in front of three of the candidates, one of them being me, I suddenly reached the most clear thought of my life:
I am only going to hit this once.
In that moment I felt a singular determination, a total, absolute focus, and a total letting go of any thought or concern for my foot, or pride, or any other emotion.
All three bricks were going to all break, and I was only going to hit the stack once.
Watching the video today, you can see me strike the bricks with an ax kick (not even that high of an ax kick, really), see all the bricks explode into pieces, and see me I jump back into cat stance in such joy and total elation.
I had done it! Before I'd thought it was impossible -- but I had just done it!
I want to thank Great Grandmaster so, so much. When ever I face a challenge, I remember those 3 bricks. I remember my Red Belt testing, where I just couldn't break the stack of three, and I remember successfully breaking them at my Black Belt Testing because of my singular, determined thought - I was only going to hit this once.
I'm not physically that big or tall, nor do I weigh that much. The moment I broke the stack of three bricks, though, showed me that I am not limited by my body, actually, but only by my mind. I can, when my mind, focus, and determination is totally set --- break through any obstacle life hands me.
Pil Seung! (Victory!)
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