Fixing It

Unfortunately something that was supposed to be purely positive has been turned negative and I want to fix it. My blog post was not directed towards my former instructor, had nothing to do with his teaching at all. My post; this one http://kenpodoll.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-smiled-entire-time-i-wrote-this.html, was about my personal growth. If you go back and read my entry from May 2011 right after these seminars took place; this one here http://kenpodoll.blogspot.com/2011/05/motivated-through-guilt.html, I said

"I was livid with myself, I wasn't studying up to par. I didn't deserve the rank I wore, I own the Encyclopedia, the Journal and the Infinite Insights. And I have read and used them all numerous times. But there's a huge difference in reading and studying, much in the same way as there is a difference in listening and hearing. These past two weekends have been very motivational for me. I haven't closed the Kenpo Journal program on my laptop in over a week. Studying doesn't mean learning the techniques, studying means digging into the principles. What applications are found where and why. Anyone can learn techniques and forms, but principles, those are often over looked. I want to help preserve Mr. Parker's Kenpo, and I want to do it right. I still don't feel like I deserve to be a 3rd Brown Belt, but I will."

As you can see from the beginning, (When I was still a student of Mr. Bundy's) I said that I didn't know the principles in depth the way that I felt a 3rd Brown Belt should. Hearing principles and understanding them are two very different things. Angle of Cancellation versus Angle of Disturbance; yeah I didn't have a clue; now I do and I was proud of that. 

The key point that I want to stress that I said in the article that Mr. Bundy is referencing is;  "This was the first time that I had ever really been exposed to principles. I'd never heard terms such as Marriage of Gravity, Economy of Motion, etc. in such detail." In detail. 

The seminar in Oklahoma was the first time that i had been in attendance in a Brown/Black Belt only seminar. I did not feel up to par at the time because I didn't understand the details of principles, or how to properly execute them.

I really don't know what else to say; it wasn't about Mr. Bundy at all; it was about myself and the growth that I've experienced.