Summary 3

I believe leisure education is important for certain populations, such as alcoholics, troubled teens, etc. Leisure education is important for these populations because they may not have the skills to participate in positive leisure experiences and they look to seek the destructive leisure experiences which enables them to end up in trouble, either with the law or puts their own health at risk or worse yet their lives at risk. I believe it is also important to have some variety in your leisure experiences. Leisure education can help you discover a balance in your leisure life. When your leisure expriences are focused and narrow in scope, certain activities that you participate in regularly and freely become obligation and job like, and you begin to lose the leisure experience in those activities. Often the leisure experience is not in the activity that you are undertaking, it is in the comradery you share with fellow participants. Leisure education can help bring together people that would not otherwise come together. However we can not truly leisure educate individuals, leisure is an individual experience and must be discovered through personal exploration. Leisure education can help people discover new experiences, however it is the state of mind of the individual that is important in excepting new leisure experiences. Often leisure educaton works more effectively when participants are enjoying the leisure experience provided. By looking at my blogs and investigating the deficiencies in my leisure life, i have noticed that my leisure experiences are narrow in scope and i need to find the time to enjoy the simple things in life, taking a walk, talking with a friend, etc.

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Last saturday i went to a wrestling class and then after that class did a muay tai class, during that class we learned how to do a dead lift, it was a cool experience learning somehting new,i felt like a professional athlete, as far as pushing yourself physically, and trying to achieve top physical conditioning, i'm not a professional athlete, going to tristar has put me in the greatest shape of my life, and fitness will allways be a part of my life from now until whenever, more people need to incorperate this into their lives, a healthy active lifestyle, then i went to marathon, and eating souvlaki was a leisure experience that i enjoyed immensly,i had a bigger appetite then usual

summary 2

I need to be aware of my feelings as I am experiencing leisure, how will I introduce the benefits of leisure , if I myself am not aware of the beneficial feelings that I experience through leisure. I need to be able to understand how leisure would be able to fit into different individuals lifestyles. In todays society leisure is not looked upon as important, a persons value is largely looked upon on how much money he/she makes, and the contributions they make through their work. However leisure is an important aspect of what defines an individuals values.
My martial arts experience has given me an opportunity to leisure educate individuals who are just beginning their participation in martial arts, and I have demonstrated the techniques that are practiced and I give them pointers on how to perform the techniques properly and effectively. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience with others and teaching them something that I enjoy, in this case the martial arts. People always appear to be appreciative when you take the time to teach them, and when it is leisure related, an experience freely chosen like the martial arts in this instance, people tend to be more receptive and listen willingly.

weekend

this past weekend i saw an amateur mma event, where guys from my gym competed and guys from other gyms as well, it was a good time, i enjoyed myself. the atmosphere at the event was lively and people seemed to enjoy themselves, afterwards my friend and a few guys from my gym went to eat at marathons, it was devine.

weekend

this weekend i went to my friends house and watched the elite xc mma event, before the event we played a rock band, which was a riot, it's a very addictive game. the elite xc event wasnt the greatest, but what are you gonna do. the highlight of the night was rock band, great way to share laughs with friends and build comratery.

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Summary

My leisure is largely centered toward my activities with the martial arts. I spend 3 to 4 days a week at the martial arts center. It is a serious leisure pursuit and it presents a challenege for me. I continue to pursue this leisure endevor, because of the fact I want to increase my skill level in this paticular activity, the challenge of increasing my skill level in this leisure pursuit is what makes it exciting for me. I am pleased with my leisure pursuits, someone from the outside might believe that my leisure experiences are limited, someone from an outside perspective may believe that I need to pursue a more varied amount of leisure experiences. However I am pleased with my leisure experiences and my choices. My barriers to experiencing a more varied amount of leisure experiences is possibly a lack of education on what other leisure pursuits i may enjoy.

last weekend

this past weekend i went to my MMA(mixed martial arts) class, we worked on some kicks, body kicks to be specific, theres usually a theme for each class, the conditioning was tough, we did some suicides, then the very same day i went to my friends house, sand had dinner at his house, his friends kid was acting like a kid,which got on my nerves, i would've prefered a more relaxed evening, but it was cool

This past weekend i went to an MMA(mixed martial arts) event at the Cluade Robillard Center. It was a fun and interesting experience, I went with my friend, I think we both enjoyed ourselves, but found some of the fights were boring, I wasn't always impressed with the skill level of all of the fighters. However the event is the minor leagues in a sense of the sport of mixed martial arts. I love the sport that's what drew me to attend the event and i'm glad I attended.

Yesterday i had my jiu jitsu class, although we did some wrestling, so not sure if it's really a jiu jitsu class. We did kimura from the half guard, finishing kimura from the half guard, which was interesting, we've done these particular techniques before, but it's always good to practice, you can never get enough practice. David L'oiseaux came before the class started and people were congradualting him for his victory in his last fight, I congradualted him as well. He knocked out his opponent in the 5th round with a broken coller bone, so some congradualations are deserved. It was an enjoyable class, i was a little sore after the class, and got a little man handled, but it's a learning experience, and makes you better in the long run.

about me

my name is ivan, it's my 3rd year in the leisure science program, i've enjoyed my experiences thus far and hope to have a good semester this fall.

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