day 220: finishing the fist form

concepts:

• wutan

lessons:

• bagua fist form

short post this week. there was no kyudo class, since this weekend was the all-California godou renshou (where all the California kyudo-ryu's are invited to attend a weekend-long shoot). i was unfortunately swamped with work, trying to catch up with grading, student appointments, and classes (never mind meetings) and so could not take the additional time to attend. at best i could only fit in the Saturday morning.

bagua fist form

we finished the bagua fist form this past Saturday. the ending is eerily similar to the ending of the bagua leg form, and very much a reminder of the form's shaolin influences. we didn't record the form this weekend, since Phunsak wanted to take a week and practice it.

in addition, Sifu stopped class to make an announcement. apparently, the memorial to Liu Yun Qiao in the Wutan organization headquarters in Taiwan has taken on a somber tone, since Madame Qiao (his widow) just recently passed way. this makes the memorial also a funeral. Sifu said we'd be taking a collection of donations to send to the Wutan headquarters on behalf of Wutan Los Angeles.

this constituted the class today, and we spent the bulk of time practicing the form and reviewing several sticking points.