About 5 or 6 years ago I was thinking of starting a martial art for conditioning. My thoughts were the discipline of a regular class would be good for me. When I was younger I practiced Judo for a few years but hockey took over and I ended up discontinuing Judo.
I asked my older son if he would like to try a martial arts with me and he said yes. I though this would be a great activity for us both to do outside of the hockey season. I didn't know which Martial Art I wanted to do so I went online and called a few schools. One was Taekwondo, the other was Chinese boxing and Silent river. The phone wasn't answered at any of the schools, so I left a message for each of the schools. The interesting part of it was I only got a call back from one of the schools. It was Silent River Kung Fu. After having a short conversation with Sifu Brinker my son and I joined in April right after hockey season ended. It was interesting that a simple return phone call has brought me to this point.
We trained through the summer and we both earned our yellow belts then hockey started up and my son decided to not continue. I decided to continue as I liked the discipline of working out two times a week. At that point it was simply a hobby for me.
I believe it was the following summer I went to my first boot camp. It was this experience where I saw higher level belts and the effort they were putting into their training; I began to understand what it would take for me to become a martial artist. The mental and the physical aspects of the art now had me hooked. Things changed, I no longer saw Kung Fu as a hobby and saw it as an art. Something that I had to commit to physically and mentally get the most benefit out of the time I spent training.
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