Reality vs Time vs Atropy

   Well here I am, another day of Kung Fu passes, another lesson in humility learned. This happened at yesterday's open training. Mr Ward showed up with his new dart for his rope dart weapon, awesome looking and ready for use, almost. All he needed was someone to attach it safely to the end of his rope. He comes over to me and asks me if I could do one of the knots I am always bragging about that I claim know. "Sure, love to, hand it over" I say. Then reality sets in, it's been decades (yes decades) since I have done one of these knots. My mind knows the knot I want, it remembers doing it a thousand times in Cub Scouts when I was 10 years old. That is 39 years ago. "Good luck" my ego says to me, giggling. I try cause I'm kinda on the spot and all I end up doing is standing there drooling with smoke coming out of my ears. How the heck could I forget this! I used to love goofing around with knots, reef knot, clove hitch, hangman's noose, etc, I was fast, I was smooth and the knots where perfect. WHAT HAPPENED!!! Thankfully the Kohuts where there with their sailors knot still fresh in their minds, saving my bacon, that's for sure. Needless to say this morning I am practicing some knots just to ease my battered ego.

   So this of course has made me reflect on the various things over the years that we have learned in class at the Kwoon and outside the Kwoon at demos, parades, functions like Chinese New Year and various in-school tournaments like the Tiger Challenge, Board Break Marathon and Pandamonium. SOOO much information, so much being taught to us, how much can I honestly say I remember and can still actually do? Looking at the various curriculums over the years ( kids and adults going back 11 years ), absolutely there are quite a few things that I haven't even thought about in a long while. Just reading through these was like talking to an old friend, you know, catching up on old times, reminiscing about the "good times". I am unsure how or when I am going to fit in more review time with this but it was made VERY obvious yesterday that if I don't keep up on something by practicing it regularity , especially Kung Fu, it fades and becomes just a memory, that can't happen. Thanks Mr Ward, for the lesson, intentional or knot ( hahaha ).



   Demo is looking good, excited for the Banquet, looking forward good times with great people!