Very sore back 大刀 training - Kungfu Winter Arc #5

Hello! It's cold again. It's 10 o'clock. I don't like to train that late. I really rather much prefer to train when it's like, I don't know, 5 in the morning or 6. But at that time the sun isn't out, so I cannot train. Sadly, sadly madly. Anyways, today it's really cold again, so it's like 0°C. That's, I don't know how much Fahrenheit. Start off again, what else? And today we have lots of walking movements. So if you watched the previous videos, oh, because it's so cold, the ground is dry and like crumbly, not as wet. That's really cool. Okay, so if you watched all the other videos before or some of the videos, always do this as a warm-up to actually, you know, get my back into being warm. These are actually the movements that are next. So what we did the last time was approximately going up like this, doing the jump, then going around like this, going here, turning around the blade so that we can actually cut with it. Then there comes the helicopter movement, which I did in the last video three times. Then we go up. After that, one more cut. And then after this cut comes this movement. Then we do these like two times or three times. And today I have to figure out, oh yeah, like this. And then I jump like this. So kind of tornado kick jumps, you could say. So it's like after I've done this step and then jumps like this. I didn't want to jump right now because I'm still not warmed up. But yeah, something like that. That's what we're gonna train today. I actually injured myself in a very mundane jump, you could say. So I'm a little bit scared, just a tiny bit, of doing jumps without warming up beforehand. Down into the stretch and up. Two more, not bad. Okay, so now let's just walk through it. I end up here. That's where we stopped last time. Kung Bu or something in between. Kung Bu and then standing up. One, two, three. And then jump, jump, jump. Not jumping backwards but like the jump would go into this direction. So jump and sit. After this, step slash backwards. Jump. I really don't dare to jump. And then jump, down, step backwards, dragging, two steps. Okay, let's get rid of the pullover. Okay, good. Let's maybe do the jumps without this first. Yeah, so let's go through it as a dry run. So theoretically, theoretically it should go like this. I'm here. I cut again. Then one, two, three. I missed it. Okay, I cut. I do the whirlwind thing. One, two, three. And then continue three times. Oh man. Okay, so one, two, three. I'm really not great at jumping. Let's do it again. So up here, cut, whirlwind. One, two, three. One, two, three. And then cut, balance, down, dragging, cut again. That's even hard to do without the dado. Oh man. Okay, so obviously I'm kind of trying to get around it. So in order to do it correctly, let's say, what do we say, five times at first. Okay, five times. One, two. I feel it in my lower back. That's definitely my fear. Because I had a lower back injury already, I don't want to, you know, overdo it, especially with the cold. That would be very embarrassing to injure myself right now. Oh, let's don't do three jumps. Let's just do one jump. And a little bit lighter. Not 100%. Maybe I'm also not quite warmed up enough. That could definitely be the case. That felt better. Oh, I'm moving, moving like an old Chinese man. I'm landing, when I'm jumping, I'm landing too much lean back, so I can lean forward a little little bit. Let's try again. Back is getting a little bit better. Balance after the jump. Not bad. As you've guys probably seen, I removed the red thingy from the sock, because I don't want it to get like destroyed. It's like it's horse hair or fake horse hair, but it's like bundled together very loosely. So after many years of usage, you will lose quite a few of them. So I just left them off and then when it's performance time, I might put them back on. Yeah. Okay, I'm not quite yet satisfied. Let's do five more. Okay, let's do this again. So five more. One. I think I know what the problem was with the jumps. I rushed them too much and that made my back cramp and made me feel very uncomfortable. So I might be able to do I slipped. I don't like to slip. That's not the fault of my shoes or the ground. It's my lack of skill. It's a skill issue. Two more times. Right. One more time. The first jump was okay. The second jump wasn't that great. three times. One thing that I really want to change, except for my martial arts skills, is my posture. I quite often just stand like this. So I have a hunchback like that and I don't really want that. I want to stand like that. I know how to do it but I'm just like forgetting it all the time. But that just means that I don't take it seriously enough if I keep forgetting it. That's not something that I have no responsibility for. It is my responsibility. If I want to change it, I have to do it. No one else. That's how it is. You're responsible for things on your own. So keep forgetting it is not an excuse. Because why don't you keep forgetting other things that are important to you? And that's for everything. That's with your family, that's with your partner, that's with your life goals. If you keep forgetting them, you're not taking it seriously enough. Okay, three times going through the form. Let's do 60%. I always say I do it lightly, I do it softly, just to not pressure myself. Well, in actuality, that's 100% of what you should do. Doing something relaxed should be even more low-powered than the 60% that I always say. Nice video content. Me catching my breath. I'm just breathing, sitting there, contemplating life. That's something. Okay, when I stand up, let's pay attention to posture. And then do it one more time. Let's get this going. 60%. Ah, 50%. I think I can start a little bit more to the left. That's why the imbalance in the jump. And this one point where I forgot the movement, that was already the second time. So it's after the going back and down, I always forget to make a 360-degree turn and cut diagonally into gong bu. I have to remember that. One more time and then we're done. Posture. Let's do the last time very slow, piece by piece. Okay, sounds good? Sounds good. And I start a little bit more to the left because I always end up pretty far to the right. That was actually quite okay. Of course, I'm not 100% satisfied, but it's already good. Quite okay. Not bad. Let's do some cool down stretching. My back is warm. It doesn't hurt, but I can feel that it's strained. So let's open a little bit more up. So in wushu, especially in traditional wushu, there is one kind of movement pattern that's very, very, very prominent. Boxes. Oh yeah, that one's tight. Relax. It's rotation spine-wise. I've seen someone call it spinal engine because it really is an engine. You can generate so much power just by rotation of your body. Twisting it like a towel. So when having a back injury, that's always something that strains. These movements are always something that's straining. I'm slowly opening up. It's just the central nervous system that's sending alarm signals, being like, oh no, emergency. He's gonna get hurt again. And I'm cramping up around that area that I have been injured. The area might as well just have been healed completely already. It's like over a year ago. So it's probably most definitely not the injury itself. It's just my central nervous system, my body that's being afraid of injuring itself again at the same position. So since my body is me, I should have at least some degree of control over it. So when doing these static stretches, also when doing the dynamic stretches, my focus is very much on this back area to relax. Really focusing on relaxing to teach my nervous system again that it must not be afraid. Because when it's afraid, that's when the injuries happen. That's when the pain happens. Okay, that looks good. Okay, great. I think that was a very good workout. Oh, I have to get myself new gloves. Not right now, but in the near future. Still a little crumbling. No. Yeah, that was a very successful workout, I think. Especially for that cold of a temperature and actually those risky movements. Because it was exactly one of those jumps that led to the back injury. So it's totally understandable that my body automatically thinks, oh no, tense up. We have to tense up, otherwise we will get injured again. Because it's the same movement, it's the same movement pattern that we've already experienced and led to a bad injury. So let's not do this again. Yeah, that was good. That was really good. Okay, bye.