Great Day

   Of course this blog is going to be about the Tiger Challenge ( June 6, 2020 ), it was way too great of an experience to not blog about. So many things happened that I can only describe as eye opening. Where to start.....

      First and foremost a enormous THANK YOU to all the Sifus who made this happen, especially Master Brinker. You and your instructors collective commitment and dedication to your art, school and students is inspirational in every way. The drive and passion you all show towards Kung Fu and Silent River is second to none. Thank you.

   So what did I learn yesterday? To much to blog about without boring you so I'll condense it to one thing and keep this as short as possible.

  Biggest thing was my hand form. I have mostly been learning the Lao Gar form through the videos provided and I thought I was doing okay. Well... yesterday I managed to take away all the excuses and 😕. What!! So my number one excuse has been practice space. Our living room is fairly small and our backyard has very uneven ground so I have been doing the form in chunks and, obvious to me now, pulling and shortening my moves. For yesterdays Tiger Challenge, I used my work's tire storage facility. It is large, open, dry, warm, even and smooth ground,well lit, everything a person needs to truly do their form to the best of their ability. After doing the form a few times to get a "feel" for the space, you know, really open up and extend the form to it's true potential, some GLARING problems showed up in my form. It almost shocked me to feel some of the things I was doing, and now I was in a panic to try and fix them before the challenge started. But as with any form, you fix one thing, 2 more problems show up, arrrggg! So now it was time to show my form in the challenge and first one wheel fell off, then the other, so on and so on. Humbling to say the least. So I have decided this morning to take the form back to square one, slow it down, assume nothing, and fix each issue as it rears it ugly face. I am absolutely grateful for the opportunity and wake up call that the Tiger challenge has given me. Now to take that opportunity and apply what I learned from it.

  Time to move it, till next blog, adios Mis amigos and Mis amigas