days 310 & 311: ugh, a long way back

concepts:

• basics

lessons:

• hsing-yi
• kyudo
• miao dao
  

i'm back...sort of. at least, in body. perhaps not in much else. i was gone for 3 weeks on vacation, but took an extra week off to get over the jet lag. so this past Saturday and Sunday were my first days back. needless to say, i was a bit out of sorts.

i'm not going into too much detail, since i think things were so rough that there's not much point in me trying to summarize anything since i wasn't really doing much good with anything. it is amazing just how quickly you can lose your abilities with any period of inactivity. i felt like i was starting all over again.

i'll suffice it to say that i'm back with just trying to get my handle on the basics. and i mean basics. as in trying to regain stances, flexibility, coordination, and physics. and even this was a bit of a struggle.

i'm going to have to take the next few weeks to get myself sorted out. in the meantime, i think you will just have to be patient with me if the posts return to something more fundamental and less advanced. it doesn't sound like fun--and i guess it's really not--but i can tell i need it.

joy joy joy.