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Yesterday I got dizzy in class again. Except this time I wasn't sick, my neck was fine, and my body wasn't even particularly tired. It wasn't horribly dizzy, more of a weak, shakey sort of thing. More like low blood sugar than anything else. Especially since it didn't start until near the end of sword.

Except I thought I'd eaten well earlier in the day. And then I gobbled down a luna bar during sword, which helped a little, but didn't last. So I ate a bunch of phad thai during Chen, which helped a bit more... it was kind of eerie, feeling that drained, without feeling sore muscles or that kind of more overt fatigue. I wonder how much this has been playing into other days when I've felt strange.

Five hours really is a long time to train. It's getting easier (especially if this was just low blood sugar) -- I'm not horribly sore at the end any more. Maybe I need to find a way to do this more than once a week.

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Just ran across this when I was playing with Google images. I've mentioned to a few people about push hands being done in low stances. (No, I'm not there yet -- I can fake it at that elevation, but not for long, and I can't relax well enough. I have a long ways to go with push hands) But here's a picture of Hong Shifu (my Master) and Master Chen Zhenglei...