day 233: judge training and more chen pao quan

concepts:

• eyes
• calls
  

lessons:

• jian shu tournament judging
• chen pao quan
  

this Sunday was focused primarily on preparing for the tournament, with time spent on running through mock jian shu tournament rounds to practice making calls and reviewing rules. we took a little time to go a little bit further into the chen pao quan form.

jian shu tournament judging

this wasn't really a lesson per se--it was a lesson for the people preparing to compete in the jian shu tournament (Gerald and Martin) as well as a lesson for people who were planning on being fill-in judges (Jo-san and Shin)--but for most of us it was a chance to refamiliarize our eyes with the pace of calls and also to practice making those calls.

since Alex showed up today, we were able to run through a full simulation of a round. we also managed to discuss some scenarios in terms of rules and outcomes. i think we're getting close to finalized, with the next step to be just arranging travel to and from the tournament.

chen pao quan

near the end of class today Phunsak showed me and Jo-san some more of the chen pao quan form. we also took a little time to review some of the applications. i think i'm starting to get better at this, since some of what we talked about were techniques that i had suspected were in the movements--although, i have a strong suspicion that there are multiple techniques in each of the movements, and that they can hence be translated in different ways. we didn't go too far, since Jo-san and i were concerned about trying to remember the form.

since it was getting to be rather hot, we wrapped up class a little after noon and went to lunch to cool off.