I've always enjoyed helping out in the other classes. With the knowledge shared, the connections with other students made, the practice of my abilities, all pure bonuses to my training. Then there is seeing when a fellow student has an "aha" moment, whether they are remembering something someone else has told them or it was something I have said or done, it is an awesome sight and feeling. While I may not be able get to all the classes, the ones I do attend are always special. One of them this week gave ME an aha moment.
Eyes, it was all about the eyes and being in the moment. The level II class was doing forms and I was at the back of the Kwoon observing, and then it happened. A student was doing their form, looking good, and then they made eye contact with me, and the next few moves they made fell of the rail.
No ones fault, I was just there, in their line of sight, I wasn't moving or doing anything distracting, but that momentary eye contact pulled them out of the moment. I felt bad but suddenly I got something that was said to me a while ago (maybe two years ago?) about me making eye contact when doing my forms. I never really understood the significance of that until that exact moment. Boom! I saw what the Sifu meant. now My aha moment, years after a nugget of knowledge was passed onto me, suddenly opened up inside me. Cool. Now to nurture that nugget of pure gold and integrate it into my Kung Fu and my forms.
And this all happened during someone else's class, just by being there to help out. I love getting that type of indirect knowledge, it just sneaks up on you and yells "surprise!!". Made me smack my forehead (internally) and say "duh Don", awesome.
Thank you to the instructors for making this possible, obviously one class a week is nowhere near enough time for me to learn Kung Fu because there is so much to learn, whether it is directly or indirectly. I'll try to be the best sponge I can be, soaking up all the awesome "universe juice" I can get.
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