Joel Engelsma

 I am going to first tip in my karate style today and I am going to film it and put it on my YouTube channel.  The first tip is probably the easiest one to do all you basically have to do is all of the kicks strikes blocks and stuff like that it is pretty fun.  They probably grade you the highest off kata and this is the second thing there definitely more lose on memorization but not by much. 

 Today I have a blog on the sermon Sunday we had yesterday I am going to talk about the evening sermon and we ha d a guest asture he had three points with a keyword for each point the first point was look to christ the second word was listen for christ and the last one was live for christ. the text was on the mount of transfiguration where Jesus becomes more glowy and Elijah and Moses show up and the first thing peter says is master shall we make three taberncles here. After all that happened Jesus forbade the disciples to tell anyone else about his. 

 I am starting an arts slash working out and other stuff YouTube channel. I got permission from my teacher in karate to film a couple of my tip tests. Yesterday after advanced class he wanted to talk to me so I was like sure because I'm not going to say no. He asked me if I wanted to be in a longer film about human trafficking and it's going to be set around the prodigal son and that going to be super cool. I also signed up for my next tip test and I'm going to film that. 

 I was elected to the wasrm up at Thursday karate class so I decided to do something a little different I am going to have three segments each working on different body parts. It's hopefully going to be fast-paced and hard. We are first going to start out with the upper body in the first segment. We were going to do a lot of pushups and core work. After that segment, we worked more on the lower body but were going to work on more explosive movements. After that, we have hardcore cardio where will do a lot of running and burpees, and jumping jacks.

 I have started to read the art of War by sun tzu. He wasn't a good man but a brilliant tactician in war and fighting. He wrote the famous quote know your enemy nd know yourself and you need not fear the outcome of a thousand battles.  Not everything in that book is these amazing quotes some of them are pervasive sense. Even this man a general said that war in the end will destroy your economy it will destroy the moral of the entire country. He said one oxcart of the enemy supplies is worth more than two of your own. 

 After completing Hell Week, trade in your white shirt for a brown shirt and move into the second phase. In this face, they yell at you but nowhere near as much as the first phase this phase is more about being in the water and dealing with high-stress situations where you really need to use your brain.  After you complete phase two you are not yet let into the elite navy SEAl group. First, you must complete about six months of training in the actual SEAl team you will be with for the duration of however long you signed up for. Here you not only learn things every seal must know but you are also given a job in the team and you get to know your teammates like brothers.  

 After a navy seal wannabe has finished indoc or indoctrination they will formally start BUD/s or basic underwater demolition. Here their mental and physical strength will stretch to a capacity never reached anywhere else in their life. They will only get a couple of hours of sleep a week; when they are awake they are either extremely cold or hot. The minimum run is a twelve-mile run. Then after phase one, there is phase two. Before you enter phase two however you must complete the infamous hell week.  Hell week starts with the instructors running into your dorm shooting off me 60 machine guns with blamnks in them and throwing flash-bang grenades everywhere. They also will have fireman hoses running to spray anyone unfortunate enough to look up. You form up on the grinder and start working out running anything to keep you moving. Hell week participants are only given about four hours of sleep to cover an entire week and they will have run the equivalent of a marathon a day....

 For my reading today I will talk about a king of the British. This king was nicknamed the falcon because when the people wanted to crown him king he was in the woods with his falcon's hunting.  The issue was that the Magayroians had decided to invade Germany so the king had to defeat the Magyrians. Just there was the small issue of the myriads being able to fight on horseback and the germans not being able to do that. Only being skilled with fighting on the ground. So the king made a clever plot. He told the Magyrrians that if he paid them gold for nine years, they wouldn't attack his kingdom. They said yes and in these nine years, the king trained his men in the arts of fighting and horseback and p[practiced by fighting the daines. 

 For sermons Sunday I am going to talk about the evening service. This service was partly based on the Lord's Supper but more on who should be allowed into the church. There are many churches and almost every single one does it differently. There are churches that all they do is dwell on this matter.  First, there are two things we must remember: when you are to join the church you must make a confession of faith. You must go before the elders and then to the church.  There are two things negative charity and positive charity are we trying to find the god things in someone's life or the bad things in someone's life. In my denomination, we always have done negative charity meaning we are looking for things that would prove you are not a saved Christian  If we cant find anything that is severely negative we will most likely have to let you into the church with open arms. 

 Navy Seals are one of America's most elite forces in the world and America.  Navy Seals specialize in capturing or killing one or two people at a time. They are trained to do large operations but they specialize in something else. Navy SEALs have the hardest selection course in America for someone who's just normally enlisted.  First they go through normal navy boot camp if they pass the physical tests set before them and the instructors see something in you. You can do to indo or indoctrination this is where they teach the simple things like boats and how to do the obstacle course. After that you go into BUD/s which stand for basic underwater demolition. 

 Branched-chain amino acids are something I am going to go into today. Amino acids are something that your body has to have but your body can't actually make amino acids. What amino acids basically do is lower the amount of soreness in your muscles it's excellent after a hard leg or back workout to take about six grams. The kind I recommend is in a powder form that dissolves into almost any beverage that you can think of. Let me tell you this though amino acids are in a lot of types of meat and vegetables you do not need to take this powder form to have your body have these. The important thing is just taking a dose if you know your meal isn't going to have enough of the certain amino acid. 

 Today I am going to talk about one of the Crusades. The crusade I am going to talk about was the crusade where a hermit led an entire army. First of all this crusade had two armies one army was led by a hermit. The other one was led by a king. They met up and made one large army. This crusade ended very quickly because the Crusaders decided they had to kill and steal from fellow Christians to get food.  They came to a city still very far away from Jerusalem and for some reason, they decided to siege the city even though the city was Christian. Some time later an army of Turks came and wiped out this crusade. 

 Sermon Sunday the sermon yesterday was about songs and how they affect us. The first couple of points are we should be singing when we have worship services. The answer is yes from the start of time humans have been a singing people. Moses sang the entire country of Israel after the Egyptians were drowned in the Red Sea. The first song recorded in the Bible is a song in Job. Music also had an effect that saying plain old words doesn't have. If you were to take a sentence, put it into harmony, and make the words rhyme. That appeals much more to the emotions of man than just saying words do. 

 The full planche is the pinnacle of most calisthenics athletes' achievements. The full planche is a hold where your arms are completely locked out and your body is completely parallel with the ground with a straight back. the full planche works very large groups of muscles and is also very hard on your tendons and bones because they will be under an immense amount of pressure.  First, you must build up the strength for easier variation os the planche like pseudo planche pushups and tuck planche, and tuck planche pushups. 

 The structure of karate is strange because in different martial arts, they do different things but at the same time the structure can flex and you could add new ranks if you wanted to. Fist is the founder of the martial arts or style that you do.  For us that would be called the shidoshi which is the founder of the martial art under that, we have people called shi hons these are the inheritors of the martial art and are more powerful than the normal black belt they also have a red and black belt signifying of the blood of Christ and the sin we still have.  Then directly underneath that are the normal black belts instruct class weekly. Under that are the higher up belts called sempai that also help teach class when needed.