day 278: corrections - ju quan

concepts:

• lines

lessons:

• chen pao quan
• ju quan
  

i need to preface this post on the Sunday class by noting that my previous Sunday post (day 276: ba tang quan) was in error. we private lessons we have been getting were not in ba tang quan but in ju quan (so the comments from the post are preserved, but the name for what we are learning is different).

i should also note that Ching-Chieh is leaving in June for 6 months for a dance project and needs to finish ju quan before then since the form is the basis for the project. unfortunately, because she's going to miss next weekend, it's putting extra pressure to finish ju quan off in the immediate future. as a result, we adjusted the Sunday schedule so that we're focusing only on ju quan in the time that Ching-Chieh has remaining before she leaves.

chen pao quan

we didn't go further into chen pao quan, but instead just reviewed the portion we've done to date. Phunsak was gone today, so it was just me, Ching-Chieh, and Jo-san.

ju quan

i missed a Sunday class, and so Ching-Chieh had to help me get caught up with what i'd missed, which was lines 5 & 6 of ju quan. with Phunsak out, she also needed me to review the 2-person forms so that she could practice them. Sifu then showed us lines 7 & 8 and the 2-person form for those. that was largely it, since we spent all our time practicing ju quan.