day 223: production set

concepts:

• rules

lessons:

• bagua
• jian shu

this Saturday was a bit rushed and hurried. Sifu wanted to film material for a DVD on jian shu, and so the morning class had to be abbreviated to allow enough time to get over the UCLA, where we were shooting the video for the afternoon. of course, this meant that between driving to UCLA and dealing with carpooling issues and equipment logistics, i missed the kyudo class. i'll try again next week.

bagua

we spent the morning reviewing the fist form, and helping people who've missed lessons catch up. this lasted about 90 minutes, at which point Sifu said we needed to make the trip over to UCLA.

jian shu

i carpooled with Phunsak over to UCLA. we spent the afternoon shooting video illustrating the various jian shu rules. we finished around 5pm.

Phunsak ended up being able to make the kyudo class, since he had all the equipment with him in his car. as for me, i had to have him drop me off to pick up my car, and then i had to get back to apartment to get my equipment. with that, and the unexpected phone call from my mother (which, as you know, no one can ever ignore), i ended up being so late (about 90 minutes late) that i figured it was pointless to go to kyudo class and just shelve things for the day.