Lessons Learned

I had a really good class last night. We did shoulder rolls again but it was definitely a lot better this time around. I still have problems with my right side and I think it’s going to take some more practice to see if my right shoulder needs to be looked at, or if it’s just my form. Hopefully it’s the latter. What made the class great was that Sifu Regier pointed out for me that I was rolling too slowly and this was affecting the force and area of impact on my shoulder. Once I adjusted a bit I had a much easier time. I was also able to better understand the practical application of shoulder rolls and break falls when Sifu Playter was talking about potentially being thrown by an opponent.

I had two takeaways from this class:

1) Understanding the practical application of a technique is important and I should ask if I don’t get it right from the start.

2) The more I dislike or struggle with doing something, the harder I should dive in and tackle it. I think it was beneficial to do shoulder rolls again this week after having a hard time with it last week. Instead of having a negative feeling about shoulder rolls for weeks and weeks, dreading doing them again, I did much better the second time and now I don’t have that negative feeling. Lesson learned.