Trained tumbling stuff at davis diamonds. My russian fronts are super high now and I can usually combo out of them. Tried to throw some cart fronts and fulls but was less successful I love the idea of switching from front tumbling to back tumbling which is why I wanted the cart-front flip but since I lack the power/technique I ended up trying some back half twists to roundoff and was pretty successful though I had a hard time keeping my arms up for the transition. Some light stretching before and after but not enough volume with that .
Spent a lot of time reading through "Buddhism as Philosophy" by Mark Siderits and it is a refreshing read to what I am used to with the usual buddhist texts. The in depth analysis of Buddhist doctrines helps deepen my understanding and refine my motivations mainly because the author is showing the more specific reasons behind certain claims, while discarding common misunderstandings. It's a good thing to have at least 5 rationalizations for why you're practicing something and the book doesn't disappoint. In particular I was just reading about the doctrine of non-self as it relates to the more conventional concept of self. Illuminating. Will write up a review and analysis after combing through it. It's a textbook but it's short and very clearly written for the most part.
Ate one big meal of spaghetti, bread, and soup for lunch. Then a mango later on. But I want to try just having one meal a day for a month. I'm inspired by re-reading this paper called "the metabolic winter hypothesis":
"In 400 BC, hippocrates wrote: “We must consider [whether] food is to be given once or twice a day, in greater or smaller quantities, and at intervals. Something must be conceded to habit, to season, to country and to age.”
I just love this. The concept of eating once a day feeds my inner ascetic. Not sure why I fetishize being an ascetic but it just makes me feel good to try to live simply in a world full of constant excess. It's part of why I sleep on the floor, why I eat plant-based, why I try not to give/receive material gifts. I suppose it makes the times that I do break these "rules" feel more valuable.
Back to the paper though, Cronise points out the the modern contrast to hippocrates' musings about food. Nowadays the meals do not stop, we are hardly ever in a fasted state so we rarely pull into our reserves which will just continue to accumulate left unchecked. Will see how I feel after a week of this and decide if I can continue.
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