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Oh, like Franky I often read books and watch video's in the evening hours

living in a school and being a professional TCMA teacher, i have a plenty of time, if i am not busy with private lessons/intensive courses, it goes like this:

morning

- warm up, hei gung, stance training
- conditioning/strengthening exercises (pole hitting, sandbag punching/kicking every day; for the rest - long pole, rattan ring, kettlebells, dumbbells etc. - i have a certain rotating schedule)
- sets, weapons (i also have a certain schedule for the whole curriculum i teach)
- finish with stretching and tit sin kyun

then usually vasting time on the net, writting, translating, watching instructional dvds, reading books & sleeping

afternoon/evening

3 classes; 4 times a week, so training when teaching; finish with tit sin kyun at night. mondays and tuesdays we have a saan sau/deui chaak class, wednesday a class for the advanced students, thursdays a saan da class, the rest are standard classes (warm up, hei gung, stance training, stretching, basic drills and combinations/sets, standard/alternative conditioning/strenthening exercises)

mondays and fridays mornings saan da training (2 hours each), on the fridays/weekends irregular cross trainings with various friends of various martial arts (mainly Muay Thai, boxing, kickboxing and WCH), sundays i usually teach standard or thematic seminars.

anyway, in the regular week, i usually skip 1 or 2 days of full training and practice just selected exercises, according to mood. i have been currently asked to lead some special courses for the Charles university of Prague and some companies (mainly stretching, strengthening exercises and hei gung), and i already run some specialised self-defense courses (for custody officers; women self defence and the self-defence for students of Faculty of Law of the Charles' University is coming soon), so it might change a bit.

Teaching 4 nights/week...

I do everything my students do nightly. A typical 2hr KF class = Footwork, Inner skills, drills ect. Then my choice of forms or banging around with eachother.


Personal training... (whenever i'm not workin' on my house..dangit)

I did allot of hardcore training when I was younger, I mostly do only upkeep of what I have in strength and energy. I don't rely on those too much anymore. Using heavy weapons and moving my own body wieght around allot is good for me.

Bulk of my time is to better my Tactile Touch and body langauge VS another human being. I try to get inside their heads, thier intent and the body language. Touch hands, listen and follow your opponants. Do this whenever possible. Especially when you're not really warmed up. Then you know how good you really are.

People get annoyed with me. They think, "he's Big, he's going to use lots of strength and power". That is expected but not high level. Mostly I just follow what ever they do and nearly always win. Yes, Hung Gar can be done this way. It's not Tai Gar...it just makes good sense to me and it's what i'm good at.


Diet...

I don't have to train for this...I already have everything mastered.
I just eat potato chips, drink coffee and try to find new ways to eat PHO noodles.

It's workin' out pretty good so far.

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