For me, every new beginning comes with a lot of questions and concerns.

"it's too late to start over"

Often it  has a lot of unclear things and it's so easy to get into confusion,  sometimes in such extreme way so I decide to quit even before I start. To prevent this from happening, it is important to stay calm, and to choose guts over fear.

It's kind of funny, to find some guidance through SIA's songs thanks to YouTube mix.. GUTS OVER FEAR video clip of a fighter made my blood run faster. I can't wait to start with the fighting training.

I just need to decide where to start, maybe plan what will come next and especially to prepare myself for making a lot of mistakes.

This week I am gonna to find appropriate fighting club to join. But besides the practical training, I know if I really want to get deep into it and make it part of my life and not just passing experience, I must to learn some background and theory, breath it. The same goes for yoga and art.

Although I believe that there are cases where being a tabula rasa is the best start position, for me theoretical studies are a good basis to build on the practical experience. Even though I always regard to that more as a limited liability than as an exact science,  I guess probably everything that interests me have already managed to interest other people before me. They've studied and wrote about it and I can learn a lot from the history and other's experience. With such wider and deeper approach my practical studies will be richer, more interesting and successful.

Knowledge

I adopted this approach thanks to the strong impact from the greatest teacher I know, my father. He teaches painting and sculpture, and his perception of the study process designed mine.

"knowledge" for an artist is the same as what an airfield is for an aircraft. Small amateur airplane may take off from a small clearing or a lawn. For an airliner, however, in order to reach great heights and distances, a well-equipped concrete airstrip is needed.

Yet if the plane does not leave the airfield, it will remain an inefficient and unneeded pile of iron. Only in free flight it can realize its destiny.

And I direct myself to the highest and farest destinations.

Therefore, in parallel to my practice of martial arts, that is about to join my yoga practice and drawing learning that have already started, I will do essence study and summary of these three areas.