It was a month long hike but I finally reached a spot high in the Himalayas. The Air was fresh but hard to breath not to hard but rest was needed. I wasn't climbing to the peak of Everest just the peak of an unnamed no one Mountain.
After reaching the top I went to start digging a cave in the mountain side.
This actually wasn't to hard plus it being summer ment even if we were so high it was freezing and snow layered the ground it was not think enough to avalanche.
It took approximately a week to dig in to the cave only 5 feet. It was enough for now but it still needed to be expanded daily I had to get at least 18 feet in before winter. The surface rock was easy to get through as it was mostly dirt but going further was harder due too the rock being hard.
Now I wasn't stupid about 4 feet in I had carved around too make make a rock pillar I would do this every four feet until I reached 12 feet the rock would be more stable then so I could afford just one more piller six feet away and make a small room of sorts.
Hunting with bow arrow and spear had become a norm this high in the mountains some of the only food you could get was mountain goat cooked right it was not bad buuuut it could have been better.
I had begun a daily routine as follows
Wake at sunrise
Secure food(one goat lasted about a week)
Patrol perimeter and set traps.
Begin stretching exercises
Train martial skills and create 7 unique Katas
(Not easy creating a kata takes martial knowledge visualization skills and lots of practice then it requires perfecting that practice with more practice simply creating a 20 second effective data could take months and I wanted to create 7.)
To be honest I had already started making a kata before I moved here to train myself. It was only 15 second so far. It consisted of a jab pivot thrust horse stance turn right foot slid left foot straight. Left arm strait punch left arm low at the waste palm facing up and forward elbow bent 90 degrees.
Next the right foot comes out of the slide position up into karate snap kick pose. Left arm takes boxing protective position right goes down straight protecting the body while the palm goes in a 90 degree from the wrist and I turned to hover backwards besides the waste as if blocking a low kick while the arm blocks a pucnch.
The next step is to snap kick resume horse stance.
Immediately thrust left arm palmward in front of face to the right where the right arm does the same but underneath. Slide the right foot slightly in front of left from horse stance position in a position where legs are crossed but your right leg is in front of your left the pivot and twirl lash out with you kick when done you right fist should be facing out your left guarding your head. Left leg behind you while your right leg is forward and bent (think standard Bruce Lee pose just after he sends a roundhouse.)
(THIS IS an actual kata the author Jacob Tellone is using and developing as I am attempting to develop a new kata if you who takes martial arts understood then please give credit to myself should I find a video of what I have said this book is proof that I have devolped this and that the kata is still incomplete I will be sharing a lot of techniques I know some are well known some I made up and improved)
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After NY martial training I begin to meditate during meditation to train my visual skills I will take existing things and disassemble them or watch what happen in motion in a way we normally could not but know is how it happen.
My best example and the meditation I first used when I started I imagined a lock and s key now I but the key in the lock and watched as each part of the lock turned and was unlocked this relatively easy to do if you know how a lock works but then I would dissemble the lock and rebuild it around the key.
Every time I upled the difficulty and succeeded I noticed something I was capable of multitasking something thought to be impossible. By visualizing what I am doing with one thing I can right a note watch t.v. and listen to what other people say it wasn't easy but I could do it.
You will have mastered visualization when you can right two different sentences in each hand at the same time. (I can only do two different words not sentences)
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It has been sixth months since winter hit using sheep skin I have been able stay warm but my rations are running low I only use firewood during the night I had figured two logs per fire wood be enough so I cut 3 to be sure 3 logs for every day winter wood last.
I ended up with half my cave full of wood at first it was great the wind could not get to me and the sheep skin was warm but the goat carcasses and cheese stashed bear outside was 15 in number it was all I could gather I also had 4 goats in a pin for cheese and milk snow would only be good once it was boiled and melted.
But as three months went by a blizzard still raged I had two goats left and only enough fire wood for food. The skns and cave were the only reason I was alive I still did my daily stretches and a slight warm up and of course meditation but that was all I could afford I needed the calories I needed my fat the only reason to exercise was to get warm.
After the fourth month the sun finally appeared for the first time I had ate the last cheese ration last night I still had one female goat I did not dare slaughter it after all its milk and cheese were the only way I had survived but two weeks ago the lack of hey had made and with only a bit of twings to eat their was only enough for a glass of milk every day or two.
The sun had come up but I knew the snow was not gone completely there would still be a few more blizzards before spring really started but for now... I needed food.
The search turned out bad but not horrible I had found a but catch a squirl had left when the nuts were cooked the protien would be enough that during rationing just 10-20 nuts a day is all I would need. The catch had a little over 80 nuts about a week worth of rations next I gather as much fire wood as I could before I went back to the cave.... The goat was gone.
Searching for it would be stupid. However hunting was not. I grabbed my bow and went one more time before dusk. It resulted in a rabbit certainly no goat but it was food.
The seasoned past ever slowly mistakes would not be made twice.