concepts:lessons:this was an abbreviated Sunday, since Sifu wanted to spend the afternoon shooting video and pictures of jian shu lessons at UCLA (with the video and pictures forming the core of a book and lesson plan for the jian shu class at Cal State Long Beach). i didn't have time to go (see the previous post), and so had to make do with the morning session.
jian shuthe morning session was devoted to jian shu basics. we have 2 new students, both interested in learning jian shu for the Las Vegas tournament. Sifu had us run through the 5 basic defensive manuevres:
i've covered these before in previous posts, so won't go into them here. we went through them stationary, and then did a few moves with some basic footwork. this was something i was not aware of--i know that jian techniques always involve movement, and that there was footwork as demonstrated by the jian forms, but i didn't know that there was formal footwork that was used to make combinations with the 5 basic hand techniques.
that was all we had time for this morning. Sifu said next time we'd spend more time integrating the basic movements with more footwork.
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