I had a bit of a temper tantrum the third day of training. The night before, the, sifu told me we would go to visit the grand master the next day at 8:30, so I would need to get up earlier than usual to do morning training. Our schedule says training at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, which I already think is nuts. Morning training should be earlier and afternoon training should be later, to allow time to sleep after lunch. But, a schedule is a schedule, and I refuse to deviate. I told him, “no, I will just skip morning training.” I was thinking if we were leaving at 8:30, I would have to train at 7:00, so get up at 6:30, and wouldn’t be able to nap after training, because it would be a long day of visiting the Grand Master. I thought better to just skip morning training and train in the afternoon when we got back. It became a huge, uncomfortable discussion between us. But one, I can’t train twice a day if you don’t let me rest in between. Two, I wanted to establish, straight away from the beginning, that there is a schedule and you don’t deviate from it. If you want Antonio to flip out and kill someone, deny him his noon sleep or change the schedule. Now, two weeks later, he still brings up that argument. And I have learned that the schedule isn’t even a loose guideline. There have been days when people came to my room at 8:30 to call me for training and days that we walked from the lunch table, directly into the practice room and trained for three hours. I really hate the lack of scheduling and planning. Also, I am the only one who actually trains twice a day, every day. So for these guys who train twice a week, deviations are no problem, but for me they are killers.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:15:54 +0000
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