Good weekend of practicing. Worked on speed, contrast and power and things felt really, really good. Also did straight sword a couple of times, and focussed on linking the sword to my centre, which also felt very good. This came atop a good week of letting the wrists heal up (too much weapons, too soon) and working on the longer sets along with staff, cane and double dagger sets. Iron Palm also felt good, and I talked to Sifu saturday morning and explored some areas of improvement.
Then, came the falls, of which I do want to improve. A bagua student has been coming in on saturdays who also has a background in other falling/grappling arts. He's been open to our questions and we're starting to develop a curriculum for the Shaolin conditioning classes. I'll need to work on my falls more, though -- neck muscles are stiff and sore, they're not used to it yet. And I saw Dr Fuji last week, alas...
Posted by kannik at September 19, 2005 01:36 PM in Kung Fu