day 229: move-in

concepts:

• elbow basics while moving

lessons:

• bagua elbow basics

this is a bit of a short post. we had a slightly abbreviated class, since the morning was spent helping sifu move into a house--yes, that's right moving.

sifu decided some time ago that he wasn't quite ready to retire, and certainly not enough to warrant finalizing his original plan to reside in Hawaii. he and his wife are returning to Southern California, although my understanding is that they're keeping the property in Hawaii.

a fair number of his students helped, with everyone bringing whatever larger vehicles they could find, making the move a fairly quick process of around 2-3 hours.

we wrapped up in time to have about 2 hours at the park. i ended up spending the time reviewing the bagua elbow basics--which is good, since my vacation essentially meant that i'd missed 3 weekends of classes on these, and i needed the practice. sifu also introduced to the moving basics (apparently, what we've done are only the elbow movements in a stationary stance, and today we learned to do them while moving along a line).

we finished around 1pm. there was no kyudo today, since it was July 4.