day 196: kuen wu erlu

concepts:

• differences

lessons:

• kuen wu jian erlu

i'm writing this several weeks late. i've been rather busy, and so wasn't able to get this in. it's also going to be a short post.

this post relates to the last Sunday before the winter break, which was Sunday, December 14. we had a small turnout today, since we were largely winding things down for the fall.

the focus today was on finalizing the kuen wu erlu form. as mentioned in previous posts (reference: day 194), there's been some debate on this, but this time Sifu decided we should try to produce a standardized version of the form, and then also record it so that everyone can reference it. as much as possible, it's based on the erlu form given in the book published by Liu Yun Qiao, and incorporates Sifu's memories of the interpolated segments not shown (i.e., missing) by the sequences of photos in the book. Lance took the honor of doing the form for the video, so credit should be given to him for performing it--as well as for being such an advocate for standardizing and recording it before people forget it.

you can see the kuen wu erlu form here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZLDPOC24n4


you can compare this to the kuen wu yilu form:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCPaWe0e7g

we spent the entire class on this, with the bulk of time spent on finalizing details and going through several video takes. hope you enjoy.