Progress on Jehuty has been good so far.

He's so different from Redwind, but each day our harmony reaches new heights.

Today Sensei taught me a new trick.

I was rowing up and down the beach when he called for me to come over and said "Lets play a game".

At first I thought "Wooo! What kind of game?!"

Then he said "Balance in your K without the paddle."

And then I thought "What the heck crazy guy wants me to balance in this thing when I'm so unstable and can't even row 50 metres without slapping the water to regain balance."

And so it was that I spent the next few minutes capping over and over, then he made a comment which just thoroughly amused me. "The boat is stable, its you who are trying to be stable. And so far, the boat is doing a better job than you." Wth?

So I wanted to show him. I remembered what he said before about being one with the boat, because you cannot force the boat to do what you want. You have to think through it.

Then this week I'm learning to be one with the water, because if you force your boat through the water, it will create more resistance and make you unstable.

This is beginning to sound very zen or something... its difficult to put into words.

Well anyway I got back into Jehuty, wiggled abit, then let go of the ground. And I floated, and balanced, and paddled, and kept upright without the paddle for 5 minutes! Could even get my hands out of the water and balance. Damn fun.

Then later I managed to actually stand up in the K1! Omigod, for 1 second at least, before jumping out in fear/joy/excitement.

Skipping dragonboat today to work on the GS engine.

I think I'm getting fat with all this training skipping crap! Argh!!! Although managed to do 20 pullups during warmups, I gotta try to push to 25 at least, before I can beat hong's minimum of 30. Funny how there was a time that I couldn't think of anything else besides training, when he was still around. Now it seems I'm goal-less in the team, but have found new targets to beat in canoeing.

Its sad in a way, nevertheless the project will be over soon, then I can get back to train with them.