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In the last 3 thurdays, I've been in classes with Fernando Aguilar.  I am deeply impressed: how easy he explains the variation, the "good style" he is always looking for. The concepts of conectivity and separation of the stones, the good shape, the rythm of the game. It's incredible. He praised my tactical reading and imagination, but also critized and pointed out that sometimes I don't counter attack and also in periods of the game I just become very submissive. In Japan, in the WAGC, I enjoyed the reviews with the pros. But this classes are really impacting my game and surely the wild crazy Kuzu-ryūsen (九頭龍閃?, lit. "Nine-headed Dragon Strike") style may finally start to give its place to the Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki (天翔龍閃?, lit. "Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash"; - "Dragon Flight of Heaven") style. I won't stop attacking and going after the other, but I must adquire a superior technique and speed in order to make this to happen. And yes, if somebody noticed, my style name comes from an anime fictinal sword technique: but the philosphy behind is the same. Or I want to think like that. I want to know one day, how a game with my friend, Hye Yeon will be. I will surely will. By the way.. I am worried for her. Did she survive the projects? I didn't ask her how she did with the Regular expressions. Mario Now... let's connect some stones.
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I found this: "Think freely, help people, AND AS FOR WHAT YOU WANT FIGHT AND BE PATIENT" Time ago, a baduk teacher from the Baduk Career (.... sounds like I am walking in circles!O_O) told me "Be humble about Baduk". I can't deny I have one virtue, that can become a problem: my pride. There's one thing that is my dignity and there's one problem when I think my pride is my dignity. There are things I can't do... I know I have hundreds of gifts since I was born, but also I received limits. I allowed my pride guide my Baduk, so I tried to play at a level I am not ready for. I played better in Beijing because I knew my limits and did the best I could within it.. and played wonderful games. This time I barely could coordinate ideas... I was overloaded. I am sorry to say that in the end I even didn't learn a thing from my friend Hye Yeon: she is at a level I can only dream of and she says she doens't understand the baduk as other players like Lee Se Dol or Gu Li. I missed the biggest lesson at all. I must return to hard work. To the hard work I can understand. Until now I've been walking alone... no teacher. Nobody has ever guide me in the Baduk. I read what I find and let myself built on it. I reached the place where my effort to advance is not giving the same results it used to do. I need guidance. I gonna take classes. First time ever. And learn and apply humbly. As a disciple. I should have been a disciple of HY humble heart before. Mario the first paragraph of this is from the song "CELEBRA LA VIDA" = CELEBRATE LIFE! Here is the lyrics with translation to english.and here is the video. I think is a good message!
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Today I received a message from our Office Coordinator: you can't go to Japan if the project is not finished.
I was like... WHAT??? you know about this travel months ago! I asked even minutes before sending the confirmation of registration... I was completely upset. I am still... somehow, they said it was a joke... I don't see it like that. If you have no respect for whatever is important to the others, it shows things I don't want to have in my soul. I even started to look for a new job. I can loose a job, there's another! but this is my chance to be in a WAGC! May be I will be back, but I really hope that CR grows so good that It may become very hard for me to return. I can't not loose this chance! this is the moment, I am the man!
I took this lightly in the office, they don't deserve my rage. I really felt I could explode there but I was thinking: "is not worthy".
Baduk is very important in my life. I am not a pro.. I know there's like 0% chance for me to become that, but I want to have it in my life, I want somebody by my side who understand that, and I just ask respect for it. They also hide from me my Invitation Letter from Korea almost 2 years ago, and now this? Tonight, I will pray for they realize it's not good to hurt people like this, but also for that my soul never fall to do something like that. Amen.
mmmm I really want to fill my lungs with kimchi-full-air in Seoul!!
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I don't think there are styles, but there are expressions: for different styles to exists, the rules of baduk should be different in Japan, Korea, Latin America, ... but they are the same. And since there are no different rules, there are not different styles.
Everybody should find his/her own expression in Baduk: there are principles, yes: but the how we can create our own way using that principles is what make every player an artist. When you worry more about following the rules and not playing your own, then you become a product; one more in a production line, and even worst: you can't take advantage of what everybody knows and everybody is doing, since is all the same.
Greatest warriors and strategist in all fields made their own way: even created positions/situations where the principles don't work, but a new approach does. Waiting for the circumstances to happen is to be a slave of the fate, and those who are free make their own circumstances.
If the adversary retreats, I advance to take the bigger territory, if he advances I should go back but preparing the counter offense. A real master is not worried, is always ready and when the opportunity shows, he even doesn't execute the hit against the adversary position: the hit does itself!
That's why our duty is to become ready to use whatever tool that work for our expression. We need to be complete: we need to master the simple position to bring our opponent to a fight where we are stronger, we need to master fighting in order to stop his efforts to mess and steal our win. Like ying and yang, we should become the opposite force (that's also a physics principle: any action creates an opposite force). He must take the proper shape, but have an undefined shape by our own. We must be like water.
The ideal is that our opponent understand our plans until it's too late for him. We must be as a blue ocean, making any effort to come back useless.
At the end, no matter how beautiful Baduk is, victory is the only thing that matters: if we can simply accept defeats and let them go away, we can't win. They should be triggers that our goal is still far.
I will keep playing aggressive Baduk: I will try to dominate, not giving the smallest chance to comeback my opponent..., but I should learn to keep a solid basis in my position too: the punch sent if your legs are weak, will surely fail and you will be exposed to counter attack.
Winning is all in a single game: If winning is not all... then why to score at the end? But in order to win, the really important thing is the proper preparation. Practice can't make perfection, but it does excellence! We must play every move putting all our heart to win, but we must train with even a bigger obsession to minimize our errors. As usual, the goal has its bigger meaning in the way we walk to get there.
We should look for the victory with the happiness of the discovery, of the expression of our own.. with the freedom of being! If we are not enjoying the game, probably there's something wrong.
I know I learned Baduk late, I know I can't dedicate 8 hours a day to study or sit down to memorize and compare joseki sequences in all the recent pro games. But If I really love Baduk, I will keep solving problems in the buses, I will keep waking up at 3:00 am to try to replay a pro game. I won't give up to become a stronger player.
At the end of the day, I also found out a treasure that is a blessing: Hye Yeon, Alexandra, Francesco, Dimas, Cornell, Christian Pop, Hu Yuqing, Javi, Tabares, Cesar, Oscar, Zurime, Marija, Valjhe... I can't enumerate all them, but meeting all these people is real blessing! I am not alone: my family is bigger than I ever thought!
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The National Tournament is over. I got a fourth place thanks to unfair pairings made by hand just to keep a game that should have been played in the third round played in the last (5th) round.
I serious about that I am stronger that the guy who got the third place. I know how New England's Patriots felt like in the last NFL season when they have a superior and winning record that other teams that get in the playoff stage... while they don't.
I can't change how bad and really disappointed I feel. I need to recover. I need to show off in the WAGC, to put things back in place.
The games:
+ 1st round: Karla, as usual she does a good opening but get lost in the middle game. No problems to win.
+2nd round: the first bad made pairing, I faced Patrick and we did a great game. And error in the end game made loose 3.5 points. Anyway I feel ok about the game. I knew it was one of the 2 games I could lost, but obviously I did all to win.
+3rd round: the top wrong pairings: if there are only two players with 2 points in this stage... they should play against each other! is plain logic, but not.. they were arranged and I was sent to play to our #1 player. I started very good but missed some timings and one dragon came in danger and I couldn't save it. The easiest win against me this guy had in the last two championship.
+4th round: Juan, he simply is not my match. It was a territorial game: I did all the territory and I don't know if he even managed to had some...
+5th Round: Now faced with the fact that there are no way to gain my really deserved third place, I wanted to do the same I did in the last round: erase the oponnent. But Diego is a good player and has a superior sense of shape and calculus than Juan. Even with that, I was repeting the recipe: everything to the neck vein! I was going pretty well (and quickly) until I noticed he started to show some interest in the game.. then I realized just in time that one group of mine was about to be captured. I started a battle in the center where I was superior and connected. Game over, but it could have been an ugly defeat.
Now, let's keep on studying harder for the WAGC... then the Tournament in October... then next year National Championship.. where I am asking all the pairing should be done by computers and not by hands.
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Ok... It's been long time..my right arm is back after the muscle problems.. The job... I think I won't end the year there. By now my heart is in preparing the best way possible for the WAGC in Japan! May be the order in my priorities is making my view a little blurry.. I want to share this little poem... the author is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. From the romantic age of spanish language. He was the first poetry writer who really had big impact on me. He wrote a lot of poems based in his (mostly) failed love relationships.. this one is about two persons who doesn't the courage to face their feelings and face their problems. The end separated but both feeling guilty... Asomaba a sus ojos una lágrima y a mis labios una frase de perdón... habló el orgullo y se enjugó su llanto, y la frase en mis labios expiró. Yo voy por un camino, ella por otro; pero al pensar en nuestro mutuo amor, yo digo aún: "¿Por que callé aquél día?" y ella dirá. "¿Por qué no lloré yo?" Since it's short..may be it could be a parallel "homework" to practice.. I always recommend Google Language tools in the search of help...or a private message ;) One friend recommended one page about learning in spanish by singing. What I like most is the clear translations some choices of songs.. I should recommend this two: Nino Bravo's "Un beso y una flor" ... he is a classic singer who died tragically when his career was about to take the whole spanish speaking world.. but his songs and his voice... is amazing. He could have done opera! Lot of people, no matter the age still like it! His songs are classics... forever! One important point is that is very clear each line of the song... not complicated secuences... and the pronunciation is so clear!! ...If I were teaching spanish I would take this song and make a class chorus as an end of course project! isn't a funny and nice idea? "Piel Canela" (Cinnamon Skin) is an expression for people with a light tanned skin... and also the name of a nice song! Several people has performed it thru the time.. and this is one of the original classic recordings!..and after all this classic, one more contemporary: By "La Quinta Estacion" (5th Station)... the song: "Me Muero" (I die for) it's a very popular love song today! One very nice song!(the title of the song is wrong in the entry... but the lyric is ok) 내가 도와 줄게! Un abrazo, para mi amiga ;) Mario
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