My Yoga, MMA, Music, Singing, Scripture, and Praising God Six Month Goal
One of my goals has been to join an MMA gym and train for a fight for six months. I want to fight just to fight, but I am forty-two and my body hurts. Yes, I was a Marine, but we didn’t fight-fight, because even the United States Marine Corps got soft from political correctness. No, I fought a lot more after I got out the Marine Corps than when I was a Marine. Why? I didn’t want to get in trouble for fighting, while I was in the Marine Corps. But I want to learn some serious mixed martial arts. I was thinking at least two days of ground fighting and two days of strikes with at least four days of yoga and four days of singing lessons in addition to the gym, running, swimming, hiking, etc.
I’ve been playing guitar since I was in high school. I’ve never been in a band or anything; it’s just I don’t quit hobbies no matter how awfully ungifted I may be. Even though I have been around music and musicians my entire life, I wasn’t taught tone, pitch, keys, notes, and all the ingredients to making music. My music reading and writing knowledge and skills com from sixth and seventh grade music class at River Trails Middle School, and then reading music tabs for harmonic, guitar, and bass. Even though I can do pretty much anything with a guitar or bass, I still haven’t been taught music and how to sing. I can’t even tune a guitar without a tuner.
I don’t need to have some fantastic voice that people aspire to emulate, I just need a voice to sing my poetry and stories like a folklorist, while playing guitar and record a few albums. I may want to do a small tour or perform at my own venue, but I have no dreams of becoming the next Jack Johnson or John Mayer. I want to write books, make films, and record the sound track. I want to take music and singing lessons for about six months to a year, so I have the knowledge and skills for life.
I am not flexible, and I’ve never been flexible. Most people lazily attribute this to their genetic makeup, because they’re brainwashed by eugenicists, but I never had anyone show me how to stretch daily or do yoga, so it’s no surprise I am not flexible. I am mature enough to understand my ligament, bone, and joint pain comes from lack of stretching, breathing, and massaging in addition to learning to fight and sing, I want to maximize my longevity and lethality. I don’t need an MMA coach, music instructor or yogi for life, but I think six months of leaning the practice of these skills will enable me to practice fighting, sing, and yoga for life, so I can glorify God and keep myself ready to fight evil for a s long as possible with The Artistic Lifestyle.