Kung Fu Anniversary

New interior of Kung Fu, like stepping into China.

The new season of Kung Fu has begun.  It was probably exactly a year ago I made my way in looking for a new start, something fresh, and authentic.

And today was a good class. Sifu really made it engaging but I was in a rut.

I was (am) very frustrated. I had been so one-sided with the Kung Fu I felt my movement pattern had changed. And I found myself miming the motions, and mildly upset they were so bound and grounded. Why couldn't Kung Fu be free flowing and weightless today, why couldn't it be more like dance?

I found the dance moments. Varying kinespheres within the form, contact improv with the applications, the silly fact that I have a hard time with upper/lower in applying the forms.

Then Sifu told us we needed to to put more force behind our movement into the form applications quote "Be more violent." So I tried to hit people with real intent. (Intent - just like in dance.)