Beast Mode

I’m going beast mode is a phrase I commonly used during the 2009 US Wushu Team Trials. What is going beast mode?

During practice beast mode often occurs 45 min after warm up while I’m into my last sections before I do full forms. Beast mode can also occur on your third section after you have done 2 full sets already.

Beast mode is a switch that can be turned on and off in the user’s mind. Typically it converts the user from a sane modern civilized human into a primal animal with beast strength and rage. This switch must be learned to be controlled and not used at the wrong place or wrong time. Typically for me it is turned on at full power during competitions and even during parts of the warm up phase. Some such as He Jing De have so much beast that beast mode is maintained on while performing normal functions such as walking around or putting on an everyday shirt.

Opening Gates

Being able to turn on beast mode is a requirement for opening gates.

There are eight wushu power gates. These gates are the different barriers of logical exertion that your body can sustain. These gates block the body from over exerting themselves. But some wushu athletes are so advanced that they can break open these gates. The gates in order are: initial gate, heal gate, life gate, harm gate, limit gate, view gate, wonder gate, and death gate. Breaking the initial gate allows the user to increase his or her natural abilities. Opening gates causes extreme physical damage, but grants the user almost exponential power. The 10th World Wushu Championships held this October 2009 may require use of the Death Gate.

8 Celestial Wushu Gates - Don't use death gate unless you have to protect something dear to you.

Typically beast mode is not highly activated in the straight sword event, but in this case I fully turned it on. See example below:

My Taijiquan

My Jianshu

My Qiangshu

My Taijijian
Coming soon…

Ready

Li Mu Bai: No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. Now give yourself up and find yourself again.

Wushu
2009 US Wushu Team Trials is tomorrow. Dennis, Will, and Sarah stayed over at my house last night. This morning I woke up at 9am and then walked through my forms once each with Zou lao shi at Omei Cupertino.
Then we all went to Lees Sandwiches for some grub. At 1pm we got to Li Su Dong’s school for warm ups. Fu Bi De helped me make a dope spear which I will be using on Sunday. After warm ups we went home to get changed and drew lots at the Hilton. My order of events are:

Saturday
Changquan – #5 out of 34
Taijiquan – #2 out of 6
Taijijian – #4 out of 6
Jianshu – #14 out of 14

Sunday
Qiangshu – #8 out of 14

Had a delicious pasta dinner that my mom made along with some carrots and celery. Going to make my tai chi music now and then get some rest. Been training 2 years specifically for this. Going to do my best tomorrow.

Currently thinking about what Damarques Johnson (from the Ultimate Fighter US vs UK) says before a fight.

Something to the effect of-
God thank you for letting me fight. I don’t pray for victory, I just ask that I fight to the best of ability and thank you for letting me have the chance to display my skill.

Other
No other updates.

Wushu Carpet

It’s Thursday, 2 days before the competition, 1 day before drawing of lots. I am flying up north tonight. I am telling myself to focus on wushu, but if you know me by now I have a couple other things I have to do today. I figure I’m ready so there’s nothing else to think about. I’ll just do my best.

Anyways, here’s my Wed. recap:

Wushu
Warm up, light basics, longfist and straight sword form back to back no stop, then spear form. At the end of practice did my full tai chi form as well. I didn’t practice tai chi sword due to time. I made 0 mistakes nandu-wise on all 4 forms! THAT ROCKS!!
I planned on doing 2 full forms only, but Coach Rickie made everyone competing do 3 so I didn’t complain. 2 or 3 .. same thing. Monday and Tuesday I basically barely worked out so Wed I HAD A TON OF ENERGY!!! I felt a surge of power and wanted to do massive 720 butterfly twists across the gymnastic spring board carpet.

Clothing
Met up with pattern maker and explained the major revisions. Should be getting this back in 2 weeks. I like the guy and told him I have appreciated his work thus far because he has been relatively prompt and then he said ” REALLY?! Because I feel like I’ve been sorta slow and laggy”.. and that made me like his work ethic MORE! I guess since I work full time and have 2-3 other projects he feels pretty responsive. Maybe his other clients harrass him daily because that’s their sole task. For the record – I have 6 unofficial back orders for this product from the people I have shown the prototype to. Yay!

Tea
Label design is getting there, but now Im on revision 6. Hopefully by revision 8 It’ll be perfect.
Chocolate idea was unexpected, but the FIRST place I contacted seems to be EXTREMELY efficient and capabale so I like working with them already. They also make hand made chocolate for some very high end places. If things continue to work out smoothly I’m just going to continue and go ahead with them.. even though I was PLANNING on developing this later on. What the heck – might as well do it now since they can do basically everything I’m asking for. Waiting on some information in the mail from them now.

Beverage
My 2 partners on this have been in New York and flying around saving lives I guess so we have tentatively planned to talk next week (which is good cuz im busy this wknd). I bought up the domain name for the drink yesterday.

PokerBling/WushuKicks
Did some blog and online updates.
Suggested our facebook fan/profile pages to people I thought would be interested.

Random- In other news I re-installed ver 2.8 of wordpress and got the visual editor back! Woohoo! I dont know if this sounds nerdy. haha oh well.

To Do
Drop off bracelet shipment
Train at SCWA
Pack
Go to local real estate board to drop off paper work
Get logo over to pattern maker
Send out revision 7 to tea labeler
Kick ass on Saturday and Sunday