{"id":489,"date":"2010-05-16T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-05-16T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:00:17","slug":"the-shameful-me-of-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"The shameful me of yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been relaying old stories about my training and the mistakes I made. \u00a0Like when I did a bad roll and couldn&#8217;t roll over that shoulder for three weeks. \u00a0Or the time I had to use my T-shirt to stop the bleeding from a cut that I got on my head. \u00a0Doing little demos of what I thought techniques were supposed to look like.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I have been sharing these stories is \u00a0so that you know there is always room to improve. \u00a0I do not look back kindly on my past training. \u00a0I always am critical of what I have shown and what I have done. \u00a0The second I get comfortable with what I did yesterday I will stop improving. \u00a0I need to always look critically at my technique and find ways to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Look back and see your mistakes, use them to learn and push forward. \u00a0Our art is one where you can improve as you get older. \u00a0Your understanding of distance and your use of timing are not skills that diminish with age but improve. \u00a0Remember that you can always find a way to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Your life is on the line, practise well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been relaying old stories about my training and the mistakes I made. \u00a0Like when I did a bad roll and couldn&#8217;t roll over that shoulder for three weeks. \u00a0Or the time I had to use my T-shirt to stop the bleeding from a cut that I got on my head. \u00a0Doing little demos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}