Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

AiMiYo in Tokyo Meeting

Well I had a big meeting last week again in Tokyo and did not attend as a Doctor,  but as CEO of web site development firm. My interest in the Internet as anyone who reads this blog knows is very strong. So this year we formally launched a web development firm called AiMiYo International which is based out of Hong Kong and is LTD Hong Kong Company. One of our areas of special interest is developing a web presence for the Cosmetic Surgery Industry. We market, perfrom SEO function and in nut shell have it all covered in a boutique high end firm with me as CEO.

Well my this meeting was at the Tokyo Dome Hotel in downtown Tokyo baseball place. Baseball as you may know is huge sport in Japan but we can tall about that later. The conference was the Aesthetic Surgery Society of Japan and was well attended.

So my firm has a booth. We presented our talents and what we had to offer. We met a lot of good doctors and staff and other companies. One of the companies is interested in a surgical instrument I invented call the “boob-a-rang” –yes I know kinda funny name but if you check it out you will see why its named that way. You can see that instrument I use at www.boob-a-rang.com and I hold the patent and its FDA approved–pretty neat eh?

Well the booth we had was modest but we were able to show off my web development teams skills and talent. All in all it was a great meeting and we made a lot of good contacts.  I will show some photos.

Next week we will be attending the Facial Plastic Surgery Meeting in Las Vegas and this will be a much bigger meeting. I will be going         both as CEO of AiMiYo and as Plastic Surgeon as there are several lectures I want to attend to learn more for my patients.    There are         going to be some good speakers there and some I am particularly interested in.

I do quite a bit of facial plastic surgery and though I do teach some face lift courses I always want to hear new ideas and if better will incorporate them in my practice.

from wilkipedia First World Trade Center Bombinh

As many of my readers may know I trained in New York City , Manhattan in fact, capital of cosmetic surgery for most of the century ( other then LA and even earlier Switzerland ) to some degree. I was in that town, for approximately 8 years. There before I did plastic surgery I completed a general surgery residency. What you may be surprised to hear was that I was actually the Chief Trauma Resident in general surgery at New York University Downtown Hospital the day that they attempted to blow up the world trade center the first time. I will never forget that day.

In those days the general surgery residents and interns were at the Hospital 36 hours at time. As chief I would come in at 6am and get off the next day typically at 6pm. then I would sleep till the next morning and then do it again in a never ending cycle. One thing you learned in New York  was how to get things done, sometimes in what appeared to be impossible circumstances. As example we would see 40 patients in less than in hour  because the trauma team would be so much like a finely tuned instrument that it was possible because each team member would do their job OR they would be kicked out of the program. It was called a pyramid program in general surgery there. The reason is there would be I think 12 interns starting and as each year of training progressed they would eliminate based on host of factors a few until the final 5th year and ou became chief resident there were only 3 as I recall. What happen to the others , well many never became surgeons. It was hard work and you had to have certain instincts to survive. Same when I was with 20th special forces group , US Army you learned how to survive or you were out.

Sorry about the side track but I was concentrating on “getting the job done”. So many times I see people who cannot seem to get the job done. They say this and that and live in a dream world. I am sure you have seen them. “I will go to gym and lose ten lbs” of course the next day they are Baskin Robins eating ice creme. Yet that only hurts themselves. What really gets me are those who make promises to others and never do what they say. In my surgery residency that was what usually why people were eliminated in the program and never advanced. It was usually nothing to do with being a “bad surgeon” it had to do with reliability. As example , if an intern told you he would have the lab result on certain patient when the team made rounds on the 40 patients the team better have those results when the team saw the patient.  So picture this, 20 doctors and medical students rapidly going from room to room and standing out side the door. The interns would read the results of the test to rest of the team. The chief resident would make some teaching point to the others about the patient and they would then enter the room. Once inside the Chief resident and others examine the patient. Then the Chief or senior resident would tell the team the plan—Get a Upper GI scope today and we will see the results by tomorrow and decide this or that. Understand this process would take less than a minute. Yet it all depended on the one intern who would tell the team what the results were of the test he was suppose to get. If he or she failed at that job the process stopped and the team become a fumbling side show. Instead of one minute, it became a distaster. The chief would not say “ok bring me that later”. He had no time for that. He needed the results then to make the plan for the day. The team had 39 patients more to see in an hour. So as you can see after a few times like that it became evident who should stay and go to top of the pyramid and who should leave the program.

So that is how a pyramid works for surgeons, its not the brightest or smartest or the best surgical hands who wins. Its the man or woman who is reliable because every one is smart , everyone can handle suturing and cutting. It boils down to one thing. The ones who do what they say are of value and the ones who do not are eliminated. Cruel but true. It also produces the best people to be your surgeon. After last weeks blog I started thinking about this. I met and had a great time with a Nobel Laureate. He was a down to earth guy, very smart, and educated but there are many people who are like him I know in terms of intelligence. In fact I can think of two people in my life that very well may be smarter than him and I know they are smarter than me. Yet they do not win a Noble prize. In fact they are both relatively unaccomplished individuals , and the reason is they do not do what they say they will do. So I think that must be the key more so than intelligence.

As for me, I really try to do what I say I am going to do. Sometimes it impossible but in general I really do my best and most of the time I am able. I hope I do not dissapoint to many people. Although it happens I am sure at least I was able to be a surgeon.

Until next time

doctor808

The face lift work shop in Dalian China as you can see from Part 1 was a rather large gathering. The number of Chinese Surgeons was around 120 and there were also some Japanese Surgeons.

Face Lift Students Dalian China -Large Crowd !

When I say it was a big class that is exactly what I mean.  I have attended or was an instructor for other facial nerve or face lift dissection workshops in Europe and North America but this was huge by comparison. Typically, such work shops are maybe 20 students or less and maybe two fresh specimens for dissection.

Well like everything else in China I saw this was on a huge scale with about 120 surgeons in attendance.

The picture above shows only partially the amount of people there. You can note me as the one in the brown leather coat looking over one of my students work. There were about 20 fresh specimens for dissection as noted.

I am pictured here with two students of face lift workshop in China

I was the only American and the only Caucasian there. This gave me some notoriety among my Asian Collegues in attendance. I was treated very graciously while there and I felt like I was  a novelty item.  It seemed every surgeon there,  wanted his picture with me. It is not that I am egotistic and think there is something special about me,  but I know that many wanted pictures with an American Surgeon.

After the workshop was completed there was dinner at one of the local hotels. Ceremonies were conducted by the chief surgeon and professor from Dalian University Hospital and a doctor from the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) of China. These PLA people were in attendance at the events, well trained , nice appearance and well spoken they appeared to lead the congregation there you might say.

Dalian China University Hospital President

The president and chief physcian  at Dalian University Hospital In China spoke at the dinner after the face lift work shop.

Also as mentioned the PLA Doctor  spoke while we enjoyed some very good food.

Some dish served at the Dinner

Every Dish is circulated on a "lazy susan" and there were many

The food was seafood mostly as Dalian China is a port city by the ocean. The food was excellent with about 20 different dishes all served on a rotating server similar to a very large “lazy susan” that we would see in the United states.

The staff at this banquet hall were pleasant and they were efficient making sure all the doctors were taken care of.

Nothing did I find distasteful but I must say I think Chinese food in China is much better than what I have had in the States

Well that is all for now–Doctor808

As mentioned earlier I was invited lecture and “professor” for Face lifting and cadaver dissection in the Peoples Republic of China and I finally arrived in Dalian on Saturday. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control I arrived a day late. However, my host were able to rearrange my lecture and I did not miss the cadaver instruction /dissection lab.  They were also kind enough to schedule a special session for my lecture so I still was able to present the information I had prepared on my technique for face lifting.

One thing I noticed is China is a huge place with a huge population. Thus the amount of doctors for this workshop was large. Typically specialized work shops will be held and there may be 20 surgeons in attendance. At this work shop there were over 100 Chinese physicians there all interested in cosmetic surgery of the face.

The enthusiasm for the lecture and the dissection of fresh cadaver heads was amazing. They were eager students, knowledgeable and were very serious about learning their chosen art of cosmetic surgery. China only recently has had a growing interest in cosmetic procedures as the population is becoming more affluent. They like all economically well off societies move beyond the need for just food and basics of living but now are seeking the life style enhancements of cosmetic surgery. Make no mistake about China,  has an excellent medical history -advancement and plastic and reconstructive surgery has been no exception. Yet only recently has there been great interest in cosmetic surgery.

The dissection lab

To the left is one photo of the many I will be showing you over the next week or so. I am waiting for my colleague’s to email me these to me. The dissection lab was about 40 minutes by car away from Dalian where the lectures were given and other ceremonies. This is inside the Hoffen Biotechnique Co. LTD China which was courteous enough to allow the dissection in their state of the Art facility.

That name may not be familiar to many of you unless I explain that this the company which has the famous exhibits around the world from Honolulu to Paris of incredibly well dissected and preserved human bodies. They use techniques which preserve the anatomy specimens including entire specimens in a plasticized form.

I am sure most of you have heard  of, if not seen their exhibits called “Bodies” or “Body Worlds’ which is the real exhibition of these plastinated bodies

You can search on Google for more of their exhibits and work or follow this link www.bodyworldexhibition.com .

The link for eng  lish and listing of their exhibits is  http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html . I had a private tour of their facility and I must say I was amazed. They had an incredible number of exhibited specimens such as humans, horses , fish , sharks, monkeys all well preserved and more importantly visually preserved by their plastination process. Below I have a few more photos of the exhibits in their facility.

Human Plastinated

A Plastinated Ostrich is shown above and a Plastinated Human is shown as well

The facility was ultra modern with state of the art equipment which made it the perfect place to have a fresh cadaver dissection for these over 100 doctors from china and 4 I believe from Japan.

There were approximately 20 human heads for the students to perform their dissection all freshly preserved so that the facial nerve and other anatomy was could be dissected and seen well. If they are preserved as with other techniques the dissections cannot be carried out for small detailed anatomy. Fresh cadaver is the best way for surgeons to learn anatomy unlike the in medical schools where they will dissect older processed cadavers. These specimens were excellent and so the surgeons could learn well.

We did get to know some the regular staff at the facility and they were very educated helpful and great facilitators for the learning. One young lady , Chinese of course has studied in London and she was very helpful due to the fact I do not speak Chinese. Her name was Yee-Lyn I believe is how it is pronounced she said she will read this blog so please send me a correction if I made a mistake. My apology for butchering the wonderful Chinese language.

Staff at the facility who has done english translations there

There are simply not enough words to express my gratitude to this company and the use of their facility.

I will be writing more about the China Lectures and this Dissection on my next post. When I recieve the pictures from my collegques I will be posting a more detailed account of this expirence

Doctor808

Last year I went to Halloween in Waikiki. I was dressed as some sort of self described witch doctor. I am sorry I have no photos of that. I was with a Witch and a Harajuku girl and some normal male. If you have never been to Honolulu on Halloween you have missed a sight to see. The only place I have been which is more out control is Las Vegas on New Years eve.

The main drag in Waikiki is filled with…… well crazy people. So this year I decided to avoid that all together.

To give you and idea of the sights you may see I borrowed these photos from a blog called photolulu.com which I discovered.

At any rate you can find these type photos all over the internet if your interested. Just take my word for it Waikai on Halloween is out of control and is not for the weak hearted.

If you like this type of madness then this is the place for you.

Greenwhich Village in New York City may rival this scene but I must say having attended both I think Waikiki wins the contest.

As I stated I decided simply to have a quite evening as far away from the Saturday night madness as possible. So a few of my staff members Zak, Kiyoko, Amber and myself went to Zaks apartment. We each brought some nice food and consumed and excellent Italian meal with wine. The great thing about the evening was very quite conversation and a few laughs with my close staff members. It was fun and light entertainment.

Zack is well , Zack as he says and a very good host. He makes a very good speghetti suace and I brought some Italian Chicken which I make which everyone enjoys. Well this was nice for me as I had been up all night in the emergency room. I still take emergency calls at the Queens Hospital and this was my call so I had to go in  for a few emergencies. Why I do this as I am not required but I do it still. Seems doctors should do this so I do it.

Back to the dinner. We consumed two bottles of nice red wine , cheeses of two types and spegehtti with my italian style chicken breast.

the famous host zack and k

Yes that is a whole foods paper bag there . Kinda cliche I suppose but they do have the best cheese. The red things are persimmons not tomatoes.

K of course who is a cheese lover is eating that.

Then for the main course.

Quite Evening on Halloween

Italian Chicken by doctor808, spaghetti by the Zack and cheese by Kiyoko. A great combination for a plastic surgeons office.

Well my mission was accomplished and I avoided this year the Mad House called Waikiki on Halloween. Maybe next year I will go down there and dress as something like an old plastic surgeon.

Well Monday will be back to the usual. We have a few cases to perform before my trip. Sunday I was planning on surfing but had to prepare the lecture for China on face lifts. We have made a very nice video of the surgical technique I use for face lifting.  This technique has become my standard after about 20 years of trying various techniques. However I always modify my technique to the individual face.

You can learn much more about face lift and facial appearance on my web site devoted to that. You can find that on my facial web site.

Well wishing my readers a quite Halloween until next post……

Doctor808

Well ……I am sorry my dear and loyal readers I did not keep my blog up during my travels,  as time was so limited. So, I will briefly go over things here to catch my millions of readers up  (I think I have only  two readers ). I will probably have less readers after this post.

First as previously stated, I was going to Amsterdam which is one of my favorite haunts. The reasons are many. First are the people , I love the dutch as they are always friendly like the Thai people. They are straight forward and get along well. The other Europeans are so…. shall I say snobby (over nothing)  that I dont care for them as a whole. Of course many are quite nice and good descent people , but the Dutch it seems as whole are the way I like people.  Lets take the Swiss in Geneva which are a French speaking people. Some are very friendly,  but overall I would rate that town as a small town with small minded people pretending to be important. If it were not for the bankers hiding the worlds money the place would be just another dying European city in my view. No new life. As the first President Bush would say “old Europe”. They tell me that you have to live there to appreciate Geneva and perhaps,  as I only visited but…..not my cup of tea.  That is my simple minded dumb American view. In this blog I dont review the great history ( like Nazi Germans influence ?) but that’s my basic feeling.  What I do like about Geneva is the kick boxing which is why I went and I will tell you more about that later.

Part one Amsterdam

Well we arrive in Amsterdam and  get there at our usual time of 7 am in the morning from a flight from Seattle. We have to wait for the hotel as check in is at 11 am. This is no problem becuase we can get a great breakfast at the usual spot.  This time we also wanted to look at property for a possible retreat so we scout around. This place is easy to scout as there is one way to see Amsterdam –Bycycle. We rent a couple at 15 euros a day and start to scout around. If you go please rent a bike.

As you can see there is no shortage of bicycles in Amsterdam. In fact they number over 5 times the population but no one knows for sure. There are  so many and they are everywhere. Anyone and everyone old, young , crippled , athletic and entire families use them as their main source of transportation’s. The bike roads are great and easy to use. Don’t wast your time with any other means of transportation.

This is one thing I love about this place everything is so easy to do. No traffic jams, no crazy people or homeless that you can see in the central part of the city. Its clean, organized and easy to navigate around on foot or bike.

I like it because of the people I meet and the kick boxing. Rose likes it because of the Art and Museums and Food. There are great restaurants and since Rose is Malaysian Chinese she has a chance to get real Malaysian food and eats there almost every day. Below is a picture of that restaurant located next to the Red light District. That’s the famous place with hooker on display in the windows. Sort of a another type of take out menu.

The food at the Malaysian restaurant is authentic and quite good. Here you can study Malaysian Chinese, in their natural habitat eating good Malay food. This I believe  is their normal “in the wild ” behavior to eat eat eat.  Such are the Chinese…did you know that when you go into a Chinese persons home they don’t ask how are you,  but the first thing they ask is “Did you eat yet?”. If you find a Chinese person in the wild some day just ask them.  They will tell you its true. The couple at the Top are the owners by the way- her name is “Candy and his is Buddha” , I am not kidding.

Amsterdam is famous for legal drugs ( not hard ones) and everywhere you go are the “coffee houses” where you can buy either hash or marijuana cigarettes and smoke it right there while you drink coffee. Not that I would know,  but I was able to observe this. It appeared fun and seemed harmless enough. Yet I think it must appeal to a different crowd as I am a doctor. Everyone knows doctors don’t smoke pot. In case you want to know what these places look like I have several pictures below. They tell me that its cheap to buy and is high quality.

These establishments are everywhere scattered among the sex shops. I have a picture of one sex shop and of some of the evil weed that people smoke. Why people make such a big deal about a silly plant I can still cannot figure out. Its like anything else in my view–abuse it and it may cause problems. So I remind my readers that as I am a libertarian I am against government regulation of such. Amsterdam has no crime attributable to rampant drug use like we do in The States. The criminalization of this plant and other such drugs is why in my view we waste so much money. Libertarians believe if you want to kill yourself who are we to stop you, as a freedom loving bunch. We believe in a freedom to self destruct.

Well the above is only a very small part of Amsterdam,  there is something for everyone there. Art , Museums , food , drugs, sex, business deals, Muslim and Buddhist temples, churches and and a wide variety of everything. That sums up Amsterdam ,  which is a city of extreme diversity and more important— tolerance for diversity. I watched one night at 5 am the practicality of the place as the party goers were in one square when some drunken hell raisers started a fight. The police cleared them out in less than ten minutes with Horse Riding police they were there in seconds appearing from nowhere. They were professional,  efficient and cleared the crowd with out any evidence of brutality nor disrespect. They did their job quickly and the party on the street continued. I was impressed.

Bicycling around I looked over many properties and potential places to live. Signs were posted as shown :

Ideally one would not need a large place,  but some place to call home in Europe so you could have a home base. A base camp if you will.

Yet there are catches in the Amsterdam’s real estate market. Interestingly, one must be careful about what are some unusual laws.

If you buy a place and leave it empty , squatters may take over and inhabit there and you may have a ridiculous time trying to get them out. They in some case have more rights then the owners who they are not paying rent too. Crazy?  Well yes, but that is Amsterdam. I never saw such a bad deal for property owners. The original idea was that the city did not want empty buildings around by absentee land holders or something like that. Well it seems to work and the properties are all well kept. Yet maybe its been taken to far. I have more research to do in these laws.

Geneva

Well I went to a kick boxing place in Geneva where my old instructor from Thailand recommended as he was recruited in his younger years as a Swiss Muay Thai fighter. There he went on to be a Swiss national champion before returning to his home in Thailand where I first met him.

This gym was quite busy with over twenty fighter level members and huge intermediate level trainees in Muay Thai. They take their fighters to Thailand once a year for training. This gym is run by a Swiss fellow and his Thai wife. Very nice place I recommend to anyone. Unfortunately back in Amsterdam I could not find the Merijo Gym which is the famous gym there I trained at before a few times. This gym apparently moved location and due to time limitations I could spend too much time looking. So I trained on my own while in Amsterdam jumping rope , weights and shadow boxing and of course cycling hours a day.

That’s about it for Geneva to me that’s all the two itself offers. I did meet a few people and had brief conversations shall I say. The Swiss don’t speak much english There main languages are German and french. They also have that attitude of your stupid if you only speak french. As example I asked a cab driver to take me to the Hotel Savoy. He looked at me like I was nuts. I pronounce Savoy as most Americans would like rhymes with “JOY”. So he finally figured out what I was saying as he pronounced as Sav-0-aaa a definite french accent. But what I found most ridiculous was the scolding he gave me. “I have been driving a cab for 15 years and never once have I heard that way to say Savoy” he said in a most condescending manner. I could not help but tell him back—” I believe that you have not in your limited life experience of driving a cab in Geneva heard any other variation”  as I chuckled to myself. Score one for the American verses the Geneva Red neck cab driver with a “limited ” small mind. So it goes. I left Geneva vowing never to come back…well maybe I will for the Muay Thai.

Other than these issues of looking for property , relaxing and Muay Thai the most memorable issues was the Bicycling. I truly loved that around Amsterdam and I will do it again and again its a bike paradise. I also thought I will take a motorcycle trip around the country and maybe to others next time I go.  That will be fun. As far as business goes , well I did see some plastic surgeons in Geneva and was impressed but the Swiss are known for a long History of cosmetic plastic surgery. I also spoke with some Web Designers and found out about the local community in terms of Web design and marketing as well as in Amsterdam. There will be some of the best Internet and media conferences coming up these next few years like next fall which I will plan for.

Well my dear readers I don’t want to bore you with too much, so I will go over some other details in later blogs as I am still suffering from jet lag. As always enjoy.

Doctor 808

On Thursday my staff and I gave a event at Fort Schafter an Army Miltary base.  We invited the public to this lecture and question and answer period about Plastic Surgery in Hawaii. We had it sponsored by Mentor Breast Implant Company and Company which makes Dysport. There were about 50 people who showed up. There were three lectures given. One by me, one by each of the representatives. We also had door prizes and live injections of fillers and Dysport. The best prize was a free pair of breast implants dontated by Mentor Corporation.

The crowd was fun and interested

My staff had put a lot of work into this event and I think it was a success. The most important issue to me was I tried to evaluate something new we call the Aloha Dysport Lift. This is where I inject in the superficial layer of the skin Dysport in a special pattern. For reasons I will not dicuss here the facial skin is lifted to a small degree and lines will dissapear. I will be writing more about this later on a web site we are in the process of building. So for now I will tell you what we did. We did this on three patients from the audience but only on the right side of the face. We then waited 30 minutes. I then under High Density Video we asked the audience to raise their hands if they could see a difference. Amazingly every one raised their hands and all agreed that they could see the changes in each of the three patients. I actually begged them to not to go along with the crowd if they doubted what they saw. Still they all agreed that they could see the changes. This to me was amazing. We will show the pictures on the web site at a later date so stay tuned.

My Staff was available to answer questions

The staff stood by to answer questions. Many good questions came from the audience about Breast Augmentation. Liposuction and all the various fillers such as restylene, juviderm and the like.

The food was great and we really enjoyed this event and learned a lot about the Aloha Dysport Lift.

We hope to have future events such as this and we thank our sponsors.

Doctor 808

This is one route there are many path

As mentioned I will keep you abreast of my training progress. Today was an excellent day to incorporate into to my training schedule. I do not care for jogging or running so I need cardio work out another way. One is the monster stair master, which I am up to 15 minutes at level 10 now. Yet I like a more enduring type of cardio which is more pleasant. So today  I added another exercise to my weekly regiment. I cannot train Muay Thai on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I go to my Japanese class, so I decided to Bicycle to work. This will be between 5 and 8 miles one way depending on what route is taken.  The total time is about 45 minutes at a good clip. So riding to work, then to Japanese class and then to home is about 12 or 13 miles and takes a total time of 2 hours. This is because of significant hills.

The hills are fun and one must use their body weight to get up these hills. I am no Lance Armstrong,  but I  can take a hill fairly well. The cardio from this adds color to your skin and gives one the very healthy appearance as the blood vessels dilate up.

One thing that I note about such a ride is that you notice so much more around you then when driving in a car. Especially here in Hawaii the air is so fresh and evening is so peaceful with tropical breeze blowing. We will add this to our weekly routine.

Doctor808

Dysport Package

Dysport Face Lifting is a new procedure I am investigating. This is a non surgical procedure which uses Botox Cosmetic’s Competitor . Dysport is a new approved product by the FDA. They are both botulism A toxins which act in a  manner to paralyze muscle so that one does not develop dynamic wrinkles. These are wrinkles which are caused by the movement of the facial muscles as opposed to sagging of the skin.  The Dysport, as well as the Botox, both stop the muscle movement and the wrinkles do not form or relax and go away.

This new procedure I will call the Aloha Dysport Lift or ADL for short. What the ADL appears to be is a non surgical chemical face lift. Of course its not a true face lift as compared to surgical face lifting,  but from what I have observed is it does produce noticible change rather quickly. We have done the procedure on three patients and everyone in the office was rather amazed.  You could see actual changes before your eyes.  The face was done so that the full right side was done and then compared to the left and so far with the three patients with in thirty minutes you can see the difference between the two sizes. Simply amazing. I will be showing the photos when we have  5 patients completed so stay tuned.

doctor808

In the training mode again

As I mentioned earlier in this blog I would keep my readers abreast of my progress after a rest I had taken after my last fight. I would like to update you now. I started back about 10 days ago. The first thing I did was start with cardio training. The easiest and fastest way is to simply get on my eliptical machine that I have back in my lanai (soon to be garden). I did 30 minutes with a setting at 8 which ramped up my heart rate to a steady 133.  Seemed pretty easy so I continued for a few days. I went back to Muay Thai and my trainer who I have introduced before,  gave me the usual deserved harassment , but very mild. Unfortunately ,at the same time I had the Korean Cosmetic Surgeon visit and he took up my training time which between that and Japanese class i was unfaithful. Yet allow me a moment to point something out about you and about me.

If you want something bad enough and your are really hungry for it —you will find your way.

This is true in physical training, as it is in life. So even though I tell you my Korean Doctor was here and I had Japanese class I was unfaithful to my love, Muay Thai training. I obviously did not want that bad enough. That is the case, now I regret that as I lost a full two weeks of training time. Since I regret I will go starting monday and quit playing excuse game with myself. This is the same advice I will give you my dear readers. If you want it bad enough you will find away.

On the other hand I was not completely lazy. I went surfing quite a few days, continued on my elliptical machine , my pull up bars and even did push ups and sit ups in my house.  kicked my dummy every day with 30 – 50 kicks per day.  I went to the Honolulu Club (our local overly priced gym) and did a few weights.  So I look at the last two weeks as a warm up and now its time to get started.

LETS GO !! YOU HAVE TO WANT IT !!

Today I did  the following in this order:

1. Stairmaster at a setting of 7 for 15 minutes ( by the way this is the first time I did this torture device)

2. Barbell bench press of 135lbs 5 sets and 10 reps each

3. Push ups 3 sets of 15

4. Chest Flys 5 sets of 30 lbs each hand and 10 reps each

5. Weight assisted dips 10 x 3 sets

6  Smith machine squats 70 lbs X 10 reps X 7 sets

8. 35 sit ups x 2 sets

35 kicks on bag each , push kick and lateral leg kick

I must say I did work up a slight sweat but compared to a year ago this was not even 50% of my normal work out. That means I will be ramping it up greatly in the next few weeks. This will be at a minimum 4 days a week and 3 days – 4 days of Muay Thai and sporadic surfing , bicycle and other activities. Its time to get back to my old self. If you stay tuned I may show you before and after photos. I do not want to show you before as I am frankly embarrassed at this point. So remember you like I said —if you want something bad enough you will find a way to accomplish that. That is todays key sentence.

doctor808