Writing

+500 words on a short story I left hanging a while ago. I think I'll probably have to cut all of what I added -- a too-long conversation between two characters -- but at least it got me thinking about the right direction.

Kung Fu
Managed to hit all 4 classes (four hours) last night.
( A detailed account, including an internal martial arts breakthrough. )

As a reference guide for those that care, here are the names of the Basic 8 Palms and the Intermediate 8 Palms (a.k.a., Change Palms/Palm Changes) that we teach at my school.
( Cut for length for those that do not care )

Writing: No writing last night. I did clean up my PC Desktop and stories though. Was starting to feel overwhelmed by the digital mess.
Guitar: No guitar since Sunday.
Kung Fu: 4 hours of Kung Fu last night. Jia says he wants to start training me so I can teach Bagua on my own.

We finished Wu-Family Taiji long form last night. Still a long way to go to make it look like real Taiji, but still! Now I know four of the five major Taiji families' long forms ( Read more... )

Practicing for Chinese New Year on the 17th. Saw the video of my Bagua Swimming Body form from last year -- it was terrible. I can't even tell why it was terrible, it was so bad ( Read more... )

Since we have our own school finally, Jia is juggling the schedule aruond. Last night we had 4 hours straight - One each of Taiji, Xingyi, Shaolin, and Bagua ( Read more... )

The new school is nearing completion. We are also training for a Demo for the World Health Festival (??) on the 20th. Nothing serious. We'll do Fan and 32 Sword ( Read more... )

Medaled in 7 out of 9 events. Division: Adult Men's Advanced.
Got there at 9:00am. Got home at 10:00pm.
( Results )

Listed with the amount of time (mm:ss) it takes to do.
( The list )

Yesterday, Jia taught us a new ending for our 42 Sword form. It's actually from Wudang sword, his most advanced sword set. And it's GORGEOUS. A lot of Bagua in it, snaking around in smooth curves.

He's only taught it to us in case one of us gets into the Grand Champion's tournament, but I'm glad to finally be learning the form.