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Archive for July 22nd, 2010

Volume 4 Media To Be Included

22 Jul

Volume 4 News

For those curious, the current count solely for the Biu-Tze form in Volume 4: Biu-Tze is 173. That does not count drills so I am expecting the final count to be well over 300.

Video-wise, there are 40 videos scheduled for filming. These are the highlights of each movement that is not already related in other eBook Training Series volumes (I am not a fan of fluff or re-hashing information solely to make a publication bigger). Once it is released and then work completes on Volume 5: Muk-Yan-Chong, I will be releasing the updates to Volumes 1 through 3, which also include more drills, updated photos and updated videos.

All-in-all, 2010 is going to be a great year for training media and I am glad you are with us for the journey.

 

Heat Relief at the AWCA Gym

22 Jul

Heat Can Take a Hike

This morning I put in a portable evap cooler in our gym. It was an iffy decision since the humidity is too high to run them, but I also needed to consider finances, time to install an a/c unit, etc. During the winter time I will be installing a door unit and prepping for next summer; for now, though, we can make it through this summer with the evap cooler.

When you live in Phoenix and have a home gym, you can basically forget training in the summer time if you have no cooling to work with. It might be 100-degrees outside but it can hit 120+ inside the gym. With no humidity, evap coolers are the way to go (it is like getting out of the pool and feeling cold, even though it is 100+ degrees). When the humidity starts, though, you can forget all that.

The good thing with the new cooler is that the new fan is probably one of the best I have seen. Very powerful by itself, but also blowing cool air? That is enough to get us through the summer so you cannot ask for more than that (besides, we are tough. We have made it through a lot worse than this, but why bother when at least you can whack each other in comfort?) ;)

So the good news is that our videos, photo shoots, etc., are now full steam ahead without having to schedule around the heat issue. This is exciting for me since I am on track for getting a lot of media completed and made available this year.