A class of one
Mar. 18th, 2003 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo today, after practicing Chen with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
who_is_she (which can generally be read as spending 3/4 of the time vaguely stretching and gossiping, and then doing a bit of Chen) I headed off to get my allergy shot, corrected the problems they're having with my insurance, grabbed a quick dinner and ran off to my Qi Gong class.
Traffic was with me, so I got there early, and it occurred to me that since the classroom isn't used before our class, I might get a chance to practice sword. (Always welcome, as indoor spaces big enough aren't common enough.) I pulled out my telescoping sword (really!), grabbed my shoes, and headed in.
Twenty minutes later, it occurred to me to wonder why no one else had shown up yet... Eventually I got around to checking the building schedule, and sure enough, it's finals week and my class is over. (Which is too bad -- a Qi Gong final would have to be interesting.)
So I spent the next hour and a half working through both sword forms, practicing stances, and working on Master Feng's form. Not a bad way to go at all.
Dropping into crouch stance is working for sword, too. I still have something that tweaks a little when I move from crouch stance over one foot to having my weight over the other without raising my hips, but I think I'm working through it. I'm also noticing that low stances in general are easier, and I can open my hips a lot more in them. This has probably been my biggest stumbling block for the last year or more -- I'm just blown away by how fast it's changing. (The funny bit is that I've been stretching enough that I could do these stances fairly decently without the back mobility, though it tended to be sore. Now, suddently, I have the mobility and the flexibility together. Whee!) I had no idea that all those restricitons came from that mass of scar tissue... Weird.
who_is_she (which can generally be read as spending 3/4 of the time vaguely stretching and gossiping, and then doing a bit of Chen) I headed off to get my allergy shot, corrected the problems they're having with my insurance, grabbed a quick dinner and ran off to my Qi Gong class.Traffic was with me, so I got there early, and it occurred to me that since the classroom isn't used before our class, I might get a chance to practice sword. (Always welcome, as indoor spaces big enough aren't common enough.) I pulled out my telescoping sword (really!), grabbed my shoes, and headed in.
Twenty minutes later, it occurred to me to wonder why no one else had shown up yet... Eventually I got around to checking the building schedule, and sure enough, it's finals week and my class is over. (Which is too bad -- a Qi Gong final would have to be interesting.)
So I spent the next hour and a half working through both sword forms, practicing stances, and working on Master Feng's form. Not a bad way to go at all.
Dropping into crouch stance is working for sword, too. I still have something that tweaks a little when I move from crouch stance over one foot to having my weight over the other without raising my hips, but I think I'm working through it. I'm also noticing that low stances in general are easier, and I can open my hips a lot more in them. This has probably been my biggest stumbling block for the last year or more -- I'm just blown away by how fast it's changing. (The funny bit is that I've been stretching enough that I could do these stances fairly decently without the back mobility, though it tended to be sore. Now, suddently, I have the mobility and the flexibility together. Whee!) I had no idea that all those restricitons came from that mass of scar tissue... Weird.
