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I have a bit of a rude awakening yesterday. I tried to do what I learned last week in Hsing Yi(Ja Sil), and found that I could not recall it well enough to do. Furthermore, when it came time for Pa Kua we did the 8 palm changes, and the first half of the continues form. I found them both to be very difficult to do. Not physically, just mentally. I was really just following the person in front of me, not doing them on my own. I need to work on my internals more. I should be practicing them at home, not just shaolin. These two failures on my part made me a little frustrated at myself, but nothing like what happened in shaolin. Wednesdays class is just a beginner class. Attendance is usually small, so it tends to be a fine tuning class. Who ever shows up gets personal attention, and we work on what ever they need to work on. However, no one showed up for class. So class was just me, and Bill, who is an intermediate student bordering on getting into the advanced class. We decided that we need some work on Chin Na. Since he does not know 4 or 6 we start with Chin Na 1. The longest of all 6. This was a mistake. Read the rest of this entry »

So yesterday was the first day of my new Monday schedule. As I said in the last post. I started taking Judo. So my Mondays are one and half hours at the kung fu school, and one and a half hours at the Judo School. It was not as difficult as I imagined it could be.
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This week has been a very busy one for me. I started to take Judo, Finished the umbrella form, started working on Ja Sil, and the Pa Kua Continues form. On a non martial arts note, I am currently changing my web hosting company, so there may be some quirks during the change.
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