Round trip

After a whirlwind trip this weekend I am home again and back to the grind, not that my trip was really a restful vacation. Aside from the usual not enough time to do what I want/need or see everyone I did make time to get to the kwoon. It was a great reminder of how the kwoon really does become a second home and how the people there are part of your family. Thank you to everyone for asking how things were going and genuinely caring about how things are going for me. It was also great to get in a few rounds of sparring.

The drive home was a bit of an adventure with everything from rain, snow, ice, fog and lots of trucks. Fortunately it is still pretty early in the season so I made it home in good time and after driving through the night was able to nap for a couple hours before going to my interview.

All in all a pretty hectic past five days. It seems something some things don't seem to change for me.

Craig Janzen
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

where am I

This past two months have been really tough for me. My expectations of how things would work out where in retrospect unrealistic. I figured getting a job would be no problem I have a good resume a good portfolio how hard can it be. Then I figured once I get a job I can join up for classes again and things would carry on with hardly a beat skipped. I relearned something over the last two months. Accepting just being good is accepting a life of mediocrity. In my career field there is a lot of competition so being average means you don't stick out. With this in mind I have been creating new projects as well as finishing old projects that desperately need my attention. This time I am taking a more critical eye to my work.

I have also been thinking about my training or lack there of lately and it sucks to me. Kung Fu has been a constant in my life for the eight years give or take. Still knowing the positive effects it has on me I still make excuses to not train regularly if I am not in the kwoon. I tend to think of myself as alone all the way out here and that is not true I still can engage with team members through their blogs and through kwoon talk. I have actively made myself absent from the kwoon. The one thing I have been still doing is my push ups but even that is not enough. I have to re-establish my tracking system as well as revisit my forms which have been mostly gathering dust the past months. 

Craig Janzen

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada