morgothan’s kung fu repository

So I have been continuing to learn double edge, and working on spear. However I have also really decided that I am going to up my stance training to ridicules levels. My ultimate goal is to be able to do a good horse for an hour straight. I think if my legs can handle that I will be in good shape. So to work on this I have been doing horse a lot, instead of sitting sometimes I kick out my chair at work and get into stance. So where am I going with this. Last Thursday it fell on me to instruct the beginner class again. I was planning on doing horse for a while, longer then the usual minute of each four horse drill. So I decided to do three minutes each. Not to much more. But one of the students kept breaking his stance, and not putting his heart into it. So I said for every time you break stance the class has to stand here for an additional 30 seconds.
When all was said and done, we stood in horse for almost 20 minutes. After words I had them to 50 toe kicks each leg, unicorn stance drills, and then finally we did form. Gung Li. Which I had them do very slow, and corrected each form, and made sure they where all deep, and all around painfully correct. Of coarse I did it as well. I would never ask the class to do something and not do it myself with them. So after class everyones legs where shaking and everyone said it was a great workout. I told this story to the instructor who’s class I covered. To which he said, “You know you are on track to being the hardest and most hated instructor at the school. You have a lot more potential then I do.” Coming from him, the guy who routinely makes us do Iron leg sweeps, and one legged squats. This is quite the compliment.

Here are two youtube videos that where shown to me by one of the other advanced students in our school. Both forms are very similar to the way we do them, yet very different at the same time. You can definitely tell that they came from the same place, and just over a couple hundred years have evolved in there own ways.