三战

November 18th, 2007 at 0:17 · Filed Under Chinese, Karate, Kata and Bunkai, Training Journal · Comment

三戦 (Sanchin or 三战 in Chinese）

上地流的《三战》和其他空手道的《三战》有所不同。其中最显著的就是上地流的三战是开手型，和中国武术里的白鹤三战有所相似。《三战》是上地流的基石，也是所有上地流套路的模版。

上地流山会的《三战》，不是什么所谓的气功，更把气功的一切错误的观念给一一的打破了。上地流山会传授的古老《三战》，是以改善人体构造，把内脏《放》回原有最原始和最自然的位置，进而改善肺的呼吸法，和改善心脏的操作，减低心脏的负荷，这样就自然地改进人体的血液和自然循，也进一步增强人体免疫系统，也增强人体骨胳和肌肉的强度。所以《三战》也是上地流山会呼吸法和发力的模版。

上地流山会《三战》的呼吸法，最强调自然的呼吸，绝不采用强烈或硬硼硼的呼吸法。自然的呼吸法，绝对不会增添人体里的压力，从而不会增加心脏的负荷，就不会增加血压把血脉给胀大了。

一般上，其他空手道把《三战》解说为人体，思想和精神的挑战。而上地流山会的《三战》是力度，时差敏感和柔软的三种挑战，也以三种动物来象征力度（虎），时差敏感（鹤）和柔软（龙）。

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Dmitry was promoted

November 11th, 2007 at 23:55 · Filed Under Days in My Life, Dmitry, Family, Karate · Comment

During the soft launching of The Okinawa Karate-Do Uechi-Ryu Zankai’s Malaysia Shibu Dōkōkai at Bukit Beruang, Melaka today, Dmitry was promoted to Ku-kyu (9th kyu) or white belt with yellow band. He obtained yellow belt in previous style before he switched to Uechi-Ryu Zankai. He has to re-qualify himself according to Uechi-Ryu Zankai’s kyu requirement and standards.

I find he has achieved significant improvement compared to previous style. He has also developed greater interest to improve himself and to want to learn more. Unfortunately, I can only allow him slow progression in order to build a solid foundation in him. After all, he has a long way to go and hopefully I will be able to develop persistency in him.

Okinawa Karate-Do Uechi-Ryu Zankai Melaka Malaysia

Dmitry’s enthusiastic behavior has influenced Dietrich to gain interest in karate training. He always wanted to learn like his big brother. LA and I were too busy and this poor little boy was trying to get himself into the picture and unfortunately he was too short. He was seen in the photos as he moved from one side to another in another group photo here. I feel so sorry for him and I swear that I will pay more attention to him. I will let him start his training at home and begin his training in the dōkōkai next year.

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Unsigned music

November 8th, 2007 at 22:40 · Filed Under Blogging, Marketing, Music · Comment

Have you tired of commercial production of music? Would you like to try some music you can’t find in the commercial market?

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I found a few interesting musical works but I particularly like Jazz and Trance genre. I found Aeonia‘s work very nice to my taste. Although I don’t usually listen to this type of music, it certainly catches my attention.

The other favorite genre of mine is Ambient and my favorite bands include Beautifully Dead, Carlos Reynosa, and Age of Echoes. These musics are very relaxing and reflective. Perfect of winding down after a hard day or for your Yoga practice.

I also like Carl Hauck‘s in the acoustic genre.

I really appreciate these wonderful pieces of musics from unsigned bands. It will be perfect if download is available from this site so that I can bring these music with me in my iPod.

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Perfectionist at work

November 8th, 2007 at 22:07 · Filed Under At Work, Blogging, Call Me a Geek, Days in My Life · Comment

It is not easy to work with a perfectionist. It is unusually demanding to with one. I know but I like to work with a perfectionist. The worst thing is that I am also one. It is also very difficult being a perfectionist. Perfectionist has outstanding demands and high expectation.

But being a perfectionist is an advantage. A perfectionist is very good at detailed works and usually will not satisfy when the result is not finer than the expectation. This could send most people on their nerves and become mad.

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Dmitry is typing!

November 7th, 2007 at 9:32 · Filed Under At Home, Days in My Life, Dmitry · Comment

While I was working on my MacBook in the living room, Dmitry asked if he could type. “Dad, can I type I love my dad?”, he asked. “Sure, you can.”, I replied. I launched a text editor and let him type. He typed:

I love my dad
I love Richie
I love Nik
I love mom
I love Dmitry

Of course, he was typing with one finger.

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An invitation to hiking and hunting

November 1st, 2007 at 12:15 · Filed Under At Play, Blogging, Days in My Life, Holidays, Marketing, Shopping · Comment

Last month, a friend of mine, Garry called me and invited me for a hiking and hunting. Garry and I have known each other for 2 decades. We met during a hiking. We are both enthusiastic about archery. Recently, Garry has developed immense interest in archery hunting so he invited me to share this new exciting sports. Too bad, killing animals for joy is not my cup of tea so I turned him away. I did not want to disappoint him totally so I told him I would join him for hiking.

I guess I won’t be able to hike with him because of some other commitments. I have been thinking of getting him a pair of hiking boots for Christmas. Since Garry is so into hiking and hunting, I think the hiking boots will be a great Christmas gift for Garry. MetBoots ships internationally and offers free shipping on items above $100. MetBoots also offers gift certificate for someone special.

MetBoots also has a variety of hunting boots to choose from. I bet people like Garry will be fond of it.

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Uechi-Ryu Zankai – My Anamnesis – Part 5

November 1st, 2007 at 12:04 · Filed Under Essay, Karate, Philosophy, Training Journal · 2 Comments

I’ve been busy with dojo for the past two weeks and most heavy works like washing, painting, lifting, fitting and etc. started last Saturday. This also means I train less during this period of time. I had slight muscle ache at the back the next day (Sunday) but it was gone on Sunday night.

Posture Improvement

One noticeable result of Uechi-Ryu training is that it corrects my body posture and strengthen my back muscles such as Rhomboideus major, Latissimus dorsi, Thoracolumbar fascia, Serratus posterior superior, and Trapezius. These are huge muscles which hold up our body skeleton to give us posture.

The heavy works on Saturday and throughout the entire week until today does not give me any serious aching except a slight back muscle ache on Sunday but it recovered very fast. I had no more aching on Sunday night. I don’t have much opportunities to do such heavy works often because I mostly use my fingers to type on a computer keyboard. I can remember in the past, whenever I worked on heavy duty job like painting and cleaning with lifting, I would suffer muscle ache especially the back for a couple of days even if I trained in other style of karate.

This indicates the correct body posture together with the movements and breathing in Zankai’s training has significant health benefits especially in chiropractic.

I suffered from a herniated disc on L3 on my right in 1999 and since then, long sitting and bad body posture (particularly while sitting) would give me some discomfort in my lower back. This condition has also improved although once a while I still can feel some discomfort in my lower back. My awareness of correct body posture always reminds me of good posture. I developed this awareness after my month-long training at Zankai on Okinawa.

Chest Expansion

Another remarkable improvement is my chest. In Zankai, correct body posture is not all. The expansion of the chest as I mentioned earlier in part 3, has substantial benefits in pulmonary and cardiac functions. My training has also increased my lung volume as my chest expands.

Chest expansion is not only important for pulmonary and cardiac functions, it is also important for developing chest muscle.

My physical is slowly changing as I continue to train the Zankai’s method. The growth will be slow and will not be readily available to give immediate fast results, but I can feel the slow changes which develop a good foundation for any future development.

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Debt Consolidation

November 1st, 2007 at 10:57 · Filed Under Business, Finance, Marketing · Comment

How many people are debt free in their entire life time? You get loan to buy stuff you like, for example, car and house. You use credit card for shopping. You have overdue utilities bills. The list can continue.

When the number of creditors increase, you will find repaying your creditors a difficult task and may overwork you. You need debt consolidation loan. It is just another bigger amount of loan to repay back all your creditors. Instead of paying several creditors, you deal with only one creditor, saving time and effort. You may save some interests as well if you are having some higher interest loans.

Are you having huge financial problem and won’t be able to repay your loans? You run a risk of bankruptcy, losing your home and your bank accounts frozen, if you are unable to repay your loans. In UK, there is something called IVA to help you to settle your debts at an affordable level according to your monthly income. Once your application is approved and your creditors take up your IVA, you start repaying your loans at a calculated and affordable monthly repayment amount for five years. After five years, your repayment ceases and all your remaining debt will be written off and you become clean of debt. Your creditors cannot contact you for repayment and all interests will be frozen once IVA has been set up. Creditors cannot sue you to bankruptcy once your IVA is in order, saving your assets and your bank accounts.

These are great debt help to get you out of huge debts you can’t afford to repay.