No matter who you are or how much you have done you are still human. You are likely to brake an arm, bruise your head or get sick once in a while. When said things happen, you get stuck in the rough and of course it’s hard to get out of it. I myself am in that state right now and I can tell you teaching little kids is not the easiest way to get yourself out of the rough, however, its my job and I have to do what I have to do. You learn as you go through though that you can’t do the same thing in the rough that you do when you’re in the fairway obviously. In my case, teaching a class requires you to workout somewhat with the class and not teach from the neck up- so to speak. You can’t workout too hard if you’re just getting over being sick because you would fall right back into the sick state that you were in before. So what I have to do is pull back on working out with them so much and still maintain a good class workout. For example, maybe I do fewer kicks with them but I run with them more or vice versa. It’s a give and take but the end result is you’re not dying by the end of the first class and you still look like you’re working hard, which you are just on a different plain.

Alex Tienda 3rd Dan at the Asian Arts Center