Zero Partying Week

Monday

Morning exercise: Superset: 50 push ups, 100 abs - repeat 3 times
Taylors class: Some lame circuit drills, the guys didn't get much from this as they were not very used to the format. Weird shaped space didn't help either. On to more productive line drills ginga + basics. Okler they seemed to be breathing more deeply.... finished off with 16 pushups de angola from cocorinha. Gave them some basic partner drills and then demo-ed easy version of au queda de rins. Start from au - go down to saudacao (queda de rins) on the far hand - flick over, switch legs and land in fuga.
Park training: Went with JC. Nice chat and muckabout session - JC mentioned that my movements look more fluid then what he remembered... this is good feedback as I hardly see myself and the guys see me so often that they probably can't notice any difference. Approximately 10 reps of:
Gira no ponte, au, au virado, macaco, bananeira to ponte, helicoptero (gotta generate more speed on the leg swipe to land), ponte walkover, macaco molha, compasso to headstand, passada de pescoco. Took a break and did some s-dobrado to queda de rins, macaco to au virado, meia lua to au virado, au sem mao, martelo cruzado, au mortal. Chups

Diet:
1 x coffee
12 inch subway BMT, chips and 100 +
Nuts, biscuits
Fast twitch
Rice + mata kerbau + stir fried pork, kale, edamame - YUM!
Lychees

Sunday
PW: Stretch and basics
Celeb: Warmup roda (about 15 minutes with 4 - 6 people) - good workout for body and mind,
Stretch and 30 x side ponte stretch
Gave some partner drills
Au virado down the floor - had to break it down to bananeira to ponte first
Compasso to headstand, switch legs and role

Diet:
1 x coffee
Chicken sandwich made by d'boss :)
3/4 of remaining protein bar in fridge + alot of water
Hot n sour soup vermicelli with dumplings at Chatterbox
Chinese dinner w/ d fam & d'boss stewed pork, tofu, spinach, ginger and spring onion fish, sambal veggie/beanish dish
Kiwi, orange, lychee

Saturday
Full day of Awakening the Dreamer training made me miss my usual traina muckabout in the park but no matter, was good to spend a day listening to some pretty inspirational stuff from Jon Symes and gang. The symposium struck me in a way nothing else has in a long time. I didn't get that cheesy proactive, seize the day feeling that always washes off on to you after attending this kinda 'self development' style talks. Rather I see clearly that environmental issues are not separate from the social issues of poverty, racism and greed are not separate from personal crises of faith and fulfillment. If you pull on any of these issues hard enough, you will see that all the other issues will be affected. More on this in the near future.

Roda downtown was good. Small crew of a few oldies and a big gang of beginners. Started a little late and finished by 9ish. Good workmanlike performance by the gang. Axe was a good as could be expected by such an inexperienced crew.

Diet:
1 x coffee
Chap farn at Pavilion
1 x coffee and some finger food
Kimchi tofu and seafood soup w/ rice
1 pint Hoegarden
Shared sausage platter at Deutchhouse with Fei Chais

Friday
No treina

Diet:
1 x coffee
6 inch Subway turkey
Shilin Street Snacks Rice Box - fried chicken, so bad but so good
Roast chicken dinner!

Thursday
Garden: Little warmup and stretch
WMAC: More intensive warm up roda, ginga and stretch.
Celeb w/ Woei: 30 x side ponte, 8 wipers Repeat 3 times, Passada de pescoco x 30, shoulder adductor and abductor x 2 pcs x 15 x 2 sets

Diet:
1 x coffee
Chap farn with Woei n gang.... wah seems like long time neva see extended friend network
Another 6 inch sub at Subway w/ coke light!
Polished off the remaining pork noodles in fridge

Wednesday:
Full body stretch at Celeb

Diet:
1 x coffee
Large bowl of pork chop noodles w/ 2 servings of porkchops
1 x gatorade
Protein bar
Spaghetti bolognaise n salad