Vindication

[tylik]

For all the fact I could intellectually understand that I was gaining mobility in my SI joint and general environs, the last bit hasn't offerred much proof. Last Friday I sat out a bunch in Wushu (partly because I overdid it on low stances while I was having alignment problems in bagua the night before). Yesterday... well, sword went okay, but not great, and I was still a bit stiff. And then Craig didn't feel well so we skipped out on Chen.

But today, while I'm still having that odd overstretched fascia feeling on the right side of the SI (and the whole area to the right of that) all the sudden the mobility is getting there. Muscles are still a bit weirded out, but once I was warmed up I was dropping in to crouch stance in forms more easily than I ever had before. *this* I think is the biggest part of what hasn't been letting my hips move freely. All this damn scar tissue in my back that I've been carrying around since... whenever. Half my life, anyway.

Until everything settles down I'm going to have to be even more vigilant about warming up and stretching, but this was just such fun. I had a big silly grin on my face all through bagua. Shifu probably thought I was nuts ;-) (Then again, if she noticed my stances, I've certain gone to her for advice on improving them enough she might well have known exactly why I was so chipper.)