Just got back from the dojo.
The shin guards are much easier to get off if I leave my socks on.
I rolled my ankle right at the start of the sparring today. I broke that ankle many years ago while laboring for some bricklayers. Jumped off a scaffold and it poped, then swelled up real bad, turned all kinds of colors. I couldnt work for weeks or afford to go to a doctor. Its not nearly that bad this time though. I have it elevated, wrapped in ice and I took some ibuprofen.
back hurts, blister, ankle, bla ,f**kin bla. I'm sick of it and its pissin me off so heres the deal:
Calvin Coolidge said;
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
This is also the very spirit of the martial art, Ninjutsu. "The way of the ninja is the way of enduring, surviving, and prevailing over all that would destroy one."
"The vast universe, beautiful in its coldly impersonal totality, contains all that we call good and bad, all the answers for all the paradoxes we see around us. Relying on keen perception and attuned awareness, the ninja can responsively follow the subtle seasons and reasons of heaven, altering just as change is necessary, adapting always, so that in the end, regardless of the infinite changes, there is no such thing as surprise for the ninja." -33rd Grandmaster Takamatsu
I am determined to continue expanding this philosophy in my life, no matter what. Thats it. Now, I'm going to go do some pull-ups.